Would you like to use a keylogger to spy on your spouse? How about your kids? Is it legal? Can an employer use a keylogger to monitor employee computer activity in the workplace?
Usually, when I am discussing keyloggers, it is the kind of keylogger a cyber-criminal would use, and how to keep them off our computer. Today we are looking at this from another angle.
A keylogger, if you don’t know, is ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The Register reports that a seller on the Dream Market – a Dark Web marketplace hidden by the encrypted layers of Tor – began offering 16 stolen databases with 620 million accounts.
Why do app ...
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In our last post we singled out North Korea as a key source of cyber-war action against the United States and other countries. But they are not the only countries that the US is actively engaged with in cyber-space. On January 29, 2019, Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence, released a report to the Senate, titled Worldwide Threat Assessment ...
US-Cert recently released the following warning to businesses, governmental units, and other organizations who contract their computer support to computer support companies that are known as Managed Service Providers or MSPs. An MSP provides support principally by using remote monitoring, remote access, and remote control software products. They install a monitoring tool called an “agent,” and a command and control device on ...
We have been investigating Russian cyber-attacks this week. Today we publish a timeline of Russian cyber-activities. In the interest of space, I am publishing just the timeline with little descriptive content. I have included a download link to a PDF and spreadsheet of the timeline with more detail, and links to sources.
Notice how these cyber attacks started out in 2004 as small, ...
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Was the election of Donald Trump the result of the successful application of “active measures” by Russia? Did the massive Facebook and Twitter campaigns by the Russians change public opinion enough in the final days of the Presidential campaign to move the needle and help Trump win?
According to Retired KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, former Director of Foreign ...
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In our last three posts, we dissected the data collection program on one of the biggest Internet companies, the King of the Internet, Google. Today we are going to provide you with a small set of options you can use to reduce and sometimes eliminate your exposure to data collection, and increase your privacy while online. These solutions will work well not just against Google, but also against the data ...
Now that I know everything about you, maybe I can predict what you are likely to do in the future. In the first two parts of this report, we looked at Google and the many products and services that collect information about you, and just what kind of details are included in that informational trove. Today we will see what that information can do.
Whether you call it bots, AI (artificial ...
Continue Reading →What would you think about one company knowing nearly everything about you? After today’s article, you will have a fairly complete understanding about just how much of your information is collected by one company – Google.
Let’s start by looking at many popular Google products and services and just what information they collect about their users.
