2016 Cisco Annual Security Report Insight

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

Darknet Has All Our Data – Including When And How We Vote

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

Society Wants Technology – Does Not Realize Security Implications

Everyone heralds new improvements ever since the Renaissance in the 15th century  started an artistic and scientific improvement binge every year. We are moving to another new year since time does not stand still for us to digest the current technology.   Johannes Gutenberg small bio at physic.org So in 1440 we were inadvertently thrust … Read more