Close enough, so I decided to write about my favorite IT style April Fool’s Day pranks:
Switch right and left mouse buttons – In the control panel, mouse, there is a check box to switch the left and right buttons. While ostensibly for left-handed people, this will pretty much try your victim batty.
BSOD Screensaver. The infamous Blue Screen of Death means your computer ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.March 31 is World Backup Day. Monday is April Fool’s Day. Coincidence? I think not. I you are one of the hold-outs who is going to get around to it someday, today is your chance.
Google’s Project Zero researchers have revealed a ...
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Here’s a kick in the head. Your tax dollars at work in a way that may save you a bunch of money. The National Security Agency has voluntarily released a software reverse engineering tool called Ghidra at the RSA security conference. The NSA has been using this tool internally to take apart and analyze malicious code, and to find vulnerabilities in commercial ...
If you are running a fleet of virtual machines using popular containerization solution Docker, you may be in for a nasty surprise. A couple of vulnerabilities have been discovered in Docker that has been exploited by cyber-criminals to run the Monero crypto-currency miner on affected Docker containers. This will of course have a serious impact on performance, and in an environment where billing is usage based, this will increase your ...
I am showing up online in places other than this blog, and I wanted to share two of the most recent mentions.
I was interviewed for an articles in Financier World magazine, and the article appears in the April 2019 issue. The article is titled Cyber posture: the value proposition of security.
I recently reported on New WordPress Security Options, and my article was picked up and republished ...
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This month marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. It is also the 50th anniversary of the Apollo space flight missions to the moon and back. More recently, the successful unmanned mission by the Space-X Crewed Dragon command module to the International Space Station, we finally see space flight becoming a business as opposed to being strictly a governmental exercise.
The underlying protocol of the web, and really all ...
Continue Reading →When I started teaching CompTIA A+ classes, I was surprised at how much of the curriculum was devoted just to printer installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and repair. Then I began to notice how many service calls were for those pesky printers! Yeah, it’s a lot.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Check this out from the Simple Dollar. Tax-related identity theft is a growing problem in America, and the more security breaches, information hacks and digital business we do as a society, the more consumers who fall victim to it. In fact, in 2016 alone, thieves stole more than ...
Continue Reading →In 2015 and 2016 the winner was crypto-ransomware exploits. In 2017 and 2018 the most common exploit was Business Email Compromise, aka Email Account Hijacking (BEC/EAC). This is year is shaping up to be the year of the crypto-mining exploit.
Here are the crypto-mining malware programs that are the most prevalent:
I think we know where this is going. The Department of Defense is pursuing several initiatives where artificial intelligent and machine learning are being integrated with weapons systems. Remind anyone of the Terminator movies?
The official line from the DoD is: “All development and use of autonomous and semi-autonomous functions in weapon systems, including manned and unmanned platforms, remain subject to the guidelines in the Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 3000.09, ...
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