Category: Cybersecurity
To Pay or Not to Pay: That is the Question
Posted July 15, 2019 in Ransomware, Compliance, Data Breach
Ransomware is targeting systems world-wide, big and small. And every unlucky victim faces the same dilemma: to pay...
NY Senate Bill 224: The Next State Consumer Privacy Act?
Posted July 2, 2019 in Compliance, Data Breach, Malware
Without a federal privacy law in place, individual states are starting to examine privacy legislation on their own....
Catastrophic ShadowGate Malware Reported
Posted July 1, 2019 in Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Malware, Data Breach
A new set of malware is locking down computers instantly and demanding hundreds of bitcoin to get access to your...
Second Ransomware Payout in Florida
Posted June 28, 2019 in Ransomware, Malware, Data Breach
A ransomware attack in Florida on June 10th has resulted in another payout for cybercriminals. Officials in Lake...
Russia-U.S. Cyberwar Brewing
Posted June 18, 2019 in Ransomware, Malware, Data Breach
The U.S. hack of Russia’s power grid could start a cyberwar. The Kremlin issued a formal warning of potential...
Google Joins Facebook & Twitter in Password Storage Issues
Posted May 22, 2019 in Data Breach, Malware, Digital Forensics
Twitter did it. Facebook did it. Now Google's done it. Google revealed Tuesday in a blog post that it accidentally...
Intel Zombieland Fix Threatens Processor Performance
Posted May 9, 2019 in Data Breach, Malware, Cloud Security
"Zombieload" vulnerabilities of the microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) variety have been discovered by...
Hawkeye Uses NSA Cyberattack Tools
Posted May 8, 2019 in Malware, Data Breach, Cloud Security
The mystery surrounding the misappropriation of some of the National Security Agency's most effective cyberweapons...