Lately there have been a spate of incidents involving smartphone apps for the iPhone and Android phones that were discovered to be malicious in various ways. The important commonality in these revelations was that cyber-criminals had actually modified legitimate apps by hijacking several developer’s credentials, including their “Developer Certificate.” The developer key provides a digital signature that validates the app as being the ...
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I found this list in a report from training company Global Knowledge and thought it was worth passing on. Not surprisingly, the big bucks are going to IT professionals with certifications and experience in hot, in-demand sectors such as cloud computing, project management, ...
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I was surprised when I started teaching the CompTIA A+ class how much of the course was devoted to printer problems. Then I had three calls in the same week from clients with printer problems. This is a big source of computer problems, and based on the following cartoon, has been for a long time. From Pinterest. Enjoy.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A new book uncovers the intricacies of Paul Le Roux’s cartel and how it fueled the opioid epidemic ravaging the U.S. today. This fascinating story is covered in detail on the Smithsonian website. Or read Evan Ratliff’s new book The Mastermind. I ...
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Virtualization and containerization technologies allow developers, pentesters, network admins and server admins to create multiple virtual instances of a computer system, running inside the actual, physical host system. This is an easy way to quickly deploy and manage dozens or even hundreds of systems used in a learning lab, test network, or even to run full fledged user systems on a single server.
Virtual machines (VM) are created using hypervisor products ...
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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 ...
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The North Korean Cyberwar Operations group is known variously as Lazarus Group, Guardians of Peace, or Hidden Cobra. A few of their notable achievements include the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures inspired by the satirical Seth Rogan film “The Interview, ” the $81 million cyber bank heist against Bangladesh’s central bank, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack.
In June 2017, US-CERT sent a Continue Reading →
Don’t know who this guy is, but he sure looks like me. Evidently he found this mermaid skeleton in Bulgaria. From my Pinterest trove.
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.If your computer technical support is provided by an outside vendor, you need to know this. We have warned about this problem before.
Earlier this week, an unidentified threat actor managed to launch a ransomware attack resulting in the encryption of between 1,500 to 2,000 ...
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