2016 Has Arrived – the First of Many Shoes to be dropped unfortunately. My apologies for the sensationalist story… Wired magazine Story¹ Los Angeles Hospital Presbytarian Medical center computers have not worked for a week – being ransomed for $3.4Mil in bitcoin and “only then” will get back in business. Even now the CEO Allen … Read more
Sarah Clarke (at Infospectives¹) pushes the thoughts of Threat Management and discussion of potential Risks in this new Cyber world that we live in. Why do I take this blogpost and want to discuss the topic of Cybersecurity threats? It is true that IBM and every Consulting company doing security work wants to play up this … Read more
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
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
and of course: Santa Claus is updating how he gets all gifts to all of us … Examiner.com has 10 new ways Santa is getting around.