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Gloomy morning

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Man what a gloomy start to the day we got here in Columbus. Rainy, gray, blah. It’s one of the few days I actually am glad my office doesn’t have any windows. The password switch didn’t go too badly, the ISP was kind enough to bend the rules a tad and send me a list…

Linked – Simply viewing this malicious ad will infect your computer with ransomware

Linked – Simply viewing this malicious ad will infect your computer with ransomware

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

And this is why we stay up to date on security updates, and also a big part of why I use and ad blocker. A new malvertising campaign from the AdGholas hacker group infects victims with ransomware, even if the victim takes no action other than viewing a particular advertisement. The revelation came as part…

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Linked – Child abuse image hash list shared with major web firms

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

“The 19,000 hashes have been “given to five global internet companies [Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo], who had volunteered to conduct a robust test on the list through their systems during the implementation period.” The hashes, created during the implementation stage, were sourced from images forensically captured on the Home Office Child Abuse Image…

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Texting Bans, and Measuring the Correct Things

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

So, statistics show that, despite the increasing number of bans on cell phone use, or texting while driving, the number of traffic accidents hasn’t gone down. I’m not at all surprised. Now, mind you, it’s probably too early to really tell whether there will be any long-term drop as a result of these bans, and…

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