This is a site that is probably worth keeping a bookmark to, just in case. Plus the educational stuff is really good too! Started as a joint initiative by Europol, the Dutch National Police, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab, No More Ransom is an anti-ransomware cross-industry initiative to help ransomware victims recover their data without…
As I adjust to life in Louisiana, I have seen and heard almost constant reminders of the flooding that ravaged the Baton Rouge area last summer. Believe it or not, there are still homes with damage, and in the process of being renovated. I’ve heard a few stories from my new coworkers about the flood,…
And another one…. It seems like every day there’s news of another significant data breach, so here’s today’s: An internal investigation by the InterContinental Hotel Group, which owns Holiday Inn, has revealed that guests at more than a thousand of their hotels had their credit card details stolen. The company identified malware on front desk…
Not for the faint of heart, or the faint of technical skills, but these tools might be a good thing to keep in your techie back pocket to try and clean up someone’s malware problems! http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-aggressive-malware-tools/ Image by Visual Content
This is bad, bad news…. “A Naked Security story reports that Checkpoint analyzed Android devices owned by two large companies, and found malware infections in 36 of them. The users hadn’t downloaded the malware – they arrived with the devices, meaning that they were installed somewhere along the supply chain. The malware in the…
This is actually a difficult thing to protect against, because every organization’s IT infrastructure has at least one person with completely unfettered access, who we trust to keep it running smoothly and who would need a very high level of permissions to do so. On the other hand, had Columbia had a policy in place…