Criminals Trying to Run Crypto Miners on Your Systems

Good YouTube video: “Rise of the Miners Josh Grunzweig” Ransomware is no longer a viable method of making money for the criminals, since Bitcoin is worth a lot of money, and it would be difficult to get people to pay for their ransomed computers. So the Criminals have moved to Cryptomining. The cryptominers have infected … Read more

5 Top Cybersecurity Attacks Revealed at RSAC2018

YouTube Video of the discussions of the following people: Alan Paller, Moderator, Research Director and Founder, SANS Institute Ed Skoudis, Faculty Fellow, Penetration Testing The following image shows the most interesting points brought forward in the video, as this is a presentation at RSAC every year now with SANS’ top instructors or employees that work … Read more

In a Russian Conflict: Cybersecurity another Dimension of Attack

(((4/19 update below))) In that cybersecurity is another Dimension of attack  (versus Dimensions: Land, Air, Sea, and Space) how would we be affected by this dimension? In Land one sees their foe most of the time, and if the enemy wants to take your stuff they have to physically take it.  (Or they try and … Read more

The Real Problem With Facebook Privacy Issues

We can easily read the latest news on Facebook’s transgression of not protecting privacy of 50 million users on the CNN website ,  on 2015 this ‘hack’ supposedly happened and Facebook ‘let’ it happen. I guess the media and the rest of the world was not paying attention, as in 2009 Dark Reading story: “Private … Read more

Replace your Wi-Fi Router if 2yr+ old

Insignary had some research and created a report that looked into the binary code of most of the routers on the market. Technewsworld has  a story… And Business Insider has a story The short story is that many router companies do not update their devices which would mean customers would have to upgrade firmware, which … Read more