If the internet is to be believed, up to 10% of the world’s population are in quarantine, or at least in lockdown, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That’s a few hundred in the US, the same in Europe, a few thousand in a ship off the coast of Japan, oh and about 760 million people in China!
On the face of it, that’s quite scary. ...
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The job of a security administrator is far more complex today than ever. Plethoras of attacks attempt to blow down your corporate doors on a daily basis. Below, we’ve outlined today’s most prevalent attacks, and provided some expert advice on how to prevent being their next victim.
Malware and targeted attacks
Malware has moved a long way from the viruses and worms of the 1990s, becoming ever more crafted to target specific businesses or sectors, to steal ...
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According to experts, current crypto value is said to reach one trillion dollars this year. With an estimated five-to-ten million active wallets.
Take Statista, who reports the price of Bitcoin experienced an increase from about 371 U.S. dollars in January 2016 to over 13 thousand by December 2017. Also, market capitalization of Bitcoin rose from $0.04 billion in Q1 2012 to over $230 billion in Q4 2017.
Many of us would be lying if we said we hadn’t at least thought ...
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You know it is a bad day when your computer screen blips up with this ransomware message:
“You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. Contact For Key (cryptom27@yandex.com)ID:681, Enter.”
But if the day is Black Friday, and your computer is part of a major US city’s municipal transit system, I think we can all agree that this constitutes a very, very, bad day indeed.
This was the ransomware message presented on hundreds of SFMTA (San Francisco’s transit agency) computer screens on Black Friday – 25 November.
The ...
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