Just a few items occurred while you were with Christmas activities: Playstation and XBOX Live networks were down by a DDOS attack. (Distributed Denial of Service) attributed to Lizard Squad. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2014/12/25/xbox-live-playstation-network-hack/20895113/ Playstation is part of Sony Electronics. And its store was not loading as of 01:47EST 12/26/14 as you can see So there are … Read more
Merry Christmas to all and do the right thing: Philotimo the Greek virtue of “do the right thing” i.e. test your systems, protect your network, spend the time and resources. Philotimo is considered to be the highest of all Greek virtues which determines and regulates how someone should behave in their family and social groups. … Read more
MIT Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533631/2015-could-be-the-year-of-the-hospital-hack/ Claims hospitals are next on list to get hacked. I don’t think that is right… everyone will get hacked – it is easy to hack as many systems that are online. It is only a matter of time. So the mantra of 2015 will be EVERYONE will get hacked. test now … Read more
It looks like the reason for the hack of JPMorgan is a basic hack. The routine check caught it, but did not find the problem in the first place. $250mil spent on cyber security but did not complete the actual update on one machine. Arstechnica says there was a missing two-factor authentication configuration on their … Read more
Fixvirus show December 23rd. cyberattackers are emboldened. the real story of the last few days. Get ready for the new year.
