I recently caught a story on the BBC World News via PBS. Anders Thornberg, the director of Swedish Security Services (SAPO) was accusing the Russians of engaging in social media driven misinformation campaign very similar to what happened in recent elections in France and Germany, and in the US during the last Presidential Election. Evidently Putin is concerned that Sweden may join NATO, and is actively campaigning for candidates who are opposed to NATO.
Just don’t play it too late at nightSleep apnea can not only cause annoying snoring, but the associated lack of sleep can drive people crazy or even kill them. Treatments often include bulky continuous positive airway pressure devices that pump air into a person’s throat to keep their airway open. But an ancient Australian instrument has turned out to be a much ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Google removed 60 games that contained code to display porn pop-ups and other malicious activities. Click through to see list of bad apps. If you installed any of them, you will need to remove these yourself.
Fifty years ago, in 1968, computers were big mainframe systems that were programmed using large decks of punch cards. All output came out of a printer. There were no computer displays yet, just rows of blinking light bulbs that were call a “monitor.” All programs were run as batch jobs, one at a time. There were no windows, no multi-tasking, no interactive computing as we know it today.
On December 8, 1968 a computer engineer named Doug Engelbart made a presentation ...
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The press has been relentless lately in its coverage of Russian cyber-espionage and disinformation campaigns on Facebook and other social networks prior to the last US Presidential campaign. But is Russia the first to engage in election rigging on this sort? Hardly. We thought that looking at the state of cyber-espionage as a tactic in international relations might be interesting, and we were right. It turns out that cyber-espionage is ...
We’ve all seen this on National Geographic. A lion, tiger, or other top predator hides near a water hole and waits for some sort of four-legged lunch to stop by for a drink. Cyber-criminals and other attackers are using a similar technique to download and install malware from niche or industry specific websites to computer systems at targeted businesses. Here’s ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Looking to run a phishing attack against your team? Here’s a article from Infosec institute on the top 9 free phishing simulation products.
Your Nigerian Prince is a 67 year old from LouisianaSure looks like a prince to me. Like Prince ...
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On Monday and Wednesday we took an in depth look at the free dark web scan being offered by Experian. As we found out on Wednesday, I was not too impressed with the results of the free scan. Better information is available from HaveIBeenPwned.com.
What is Experian really offering? The free scan just looked for the email address I provided, ...
Continue Reading →On Monday we started an investigation into the free dark web scan that is being offered by credit agency Experian. Again, this is NOT Equifax, who breached our information last year. This is a different credit agency.
When we ran the free scan on Experian, they found three results. But I knew there was more to find, because I had ...
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