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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Last week we took a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast. This article concludes the series.
Torrents are just the files that contain the information related to other files and folders that are distributed across the computers. For example, if you want to download a movie using torrent, then a ...
Continue Reading →This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
So far, we’ve learned that the VPNs route your requested data through their servers to keep you anonymous.
But, as it happens with many things in the tech world, there’s not one but many different methods to route ...
This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
Although you can do many things with a VPN (from buying cheap flight tickets to improving ping during online gaming), below are some of the primary uses.
Worldwide ...
This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
Unless you’re living under a rock for the past 10 years or so, you’ll know that VPN stands for the “virtual private network.”
It is a service that lets you access any website over the web, from anywhere, securely by routing ...
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