It is all part of the Chinese strategy to steal technology and information as they work on being the top country in the world. There is an excellent article on the history of China and how it pertains to today’s world by Brandon J. Weichert at New English Review. The “trade war” is part of … Read more
From WSJ article On May 7th hackers were able to shut down a number of city of Baltimore computers. They demanded $100k worth of bitcoins to release their stranglehold. On this day that is about 13 Bitcoins (value of Bitcoins fluctuates). So Baltimore is refusing to pay as they should. The ransomware the hackers used … Read more
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It may be hard to source some attacks, but it depends on the attack as well. We also have to decide what data to use as to who got attacked? Following data and image is from FBI report: https://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2018_IC3Report.pdf The answer to the question is 367 entities were attacked and reported to the FBI in … Read more
First of all what is a rootkit? A collection of software that runs and tries to hide from the computer user and administrator while also allowing the attacker access to the computer. It does this by connecting as ‘root’ to the Operating System kernel. In Linux ‘root’ is the administrator. If you can masquerade as … Read more
