DarkSide Ransomware as a service (RaaS) criminal group got close to $5 million to decrypt locked systems at Colonial Pipeline Story technewsworld.com Specialist hackers are selling their skillsets on the open darknet market. Another Technewsworld article. What is happening is that the hackers are now not only working on encrypting data and asking for bitcoin … Read more
5 reasons to Fix Cyber Stay productive – keep running your business Making sure your devices are not used to attack others (part of good neighbor policy) Compliant with regulations (keep government in check) Emergency device failure would be taken care of Stay out of news The idea is to give 5 positive reasons … Read more
Back in the old days (last year and earlier) we in the Cybersecurity industry were preparing for ransomware – which is hacker software that modifies your computer files in a specific way (encrypts them) . The only way to decrypt and get your files back is to pay the ransom. So what is going on … Read more
CISA and CNMF Analysis of SolarWinds-related Malware story at CISA (the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) Some Questionable Senator requests: CISA and CNMF Analysis of SolarWinds-related Malware story How about expanding the NSA and allowing it to automatically fix problems as Cyber attacks come in? What could be the problem with that? “But while … Read more
30,000 organizations including small businesses, towns and local governments with an exchange server, i.e. anyone who runs their own exchange server was susceptible to getting hacked. Krebs on Security blogpost. Also we have the following story: White House cites ‘active threat,’ urges action despite Microsoft patch The problem may be that if one was attacked … Read more
