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How often are you online or to be more precise, how many hours a day do you surf the net? With the amount of hours you spend on the internet in a day, how protected are you? Did you know that while you’re looking up ways to bake a cake and follow up ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The idea of hacking back against those who hack you has been called a lot of things. The terms “goofy idea” and “illegal” are some we’ve heard. But for a ransomware victim in Germany, you can add the words “sweet revenge.” And not just ...
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A guest post from From Siege Media
Data breaches are more or less becoming commonplace. In the last several years, companies the likes of Under Armour, Home Depot, Equifax, and even Target have fallen victim to ruthless cyber-attacks, resulting in the loss of profit, reputation, and customers.
This obviously has a huge affect on ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Firewalls crashing, communications lost, and the realization that this was not a technology failure of the U.S. power grid. It was a first-of-its-kind cyber-attack that reveals the risks of our increasingly connected infrastructure. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) revealed details of the new type ...
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Paul Calder Le Roux, a brilliant South African software programmer who ran the most successful and largely legal opioid marketing networks called RX Limited, and morphed into running a huge illegal international drugs and arms dealing empire that has ever been seen. Since his arrest in 2012, he has been spending time in the custody of the DEA, ratting ...
One of the more difficult cybersecurity concepts to understand is Public Key Encryption and how public keys, private keys, symmetrical encryption and asymmetrical encryption all work together. This infographic I found on Facebook does and excellent job explaining how this works.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.At some dark moment, have you ever wondered: what if the programmers are adding the bugs deliberately?
Wow, is this an embarrassing bug: Yubico is recalling a line of security keys used by the U.S. government due to ...
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You just got infected with SamSam crypto-ransomware. What if I told you I had a secret process that guarantees I can recover your files that have been encrypted by a ransomware attack. Would you pay me to get your files back?
Brian Krebs tweeted on May 16 about ProPublica’s investigative article about ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Somehow we have published 100 of these Saturday cybersecurity news roundups. Hope you have enjoyed them, and maybe learned a thing or two. Leave a comment and the first 10 commentators will receive some WyzGuys swag.
A really scary article about what went ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from Bruce Schneier.Bruce Schneier explains once again why encryption back doors for cops means back doors for crooks too. “The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists ...
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