The report is located here http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/offers/pdfs/cisco-asr-2016.pdf in case you want to read it. As the image conveys there are 9515 users paying ransomware every month. which is $34 million in yearly income for the criminals from this single campaign. As I have mentioned before there are still large potential numbers of computers susceptible to … Read more
So it is late in January, with a new firewall installed my Cybersecurity issue is resolved… Right? In the Cybersecurity field pictures are hard to come by, so we resort to ancient castle pictures: So you just installed a moat around your castle and now you think the castle is safe??? (i.e. just installed the … Read more
Randy Westergren¹ figured out a way to hijack a Verizon FiOS account (FiOS is a bundled Internet, telephone, and TV service) Randy was doing research into a vulnerability of compromised email accounts for the FiOS app, and found a problem with the reset my password method on the Verizon website. With a few computer … Read more
Remember This? My Blogpost from Dec 29, which is essentially a review of all hacks in 2015, when you tally everything up you get to 120 million records hacked and compiled potentially. Now we have David Krebs in his blog Krebsonsecurity¹ stating the disturbing trend of using the Darknet data in warranty fraud. Using … Read more
