With ransomware and malware attacks getting more frequent and sophisticated year after year, more businesses are waking up to the reality that it isn’t a matter of if their company is going to be hit, but when. By 2025, global cybercrime is estimated to cost over $10.5 trillion annually, and your organization could be one
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The Skynet-Google Situation
The malware crisis is alarming enough on its own, but seeing the reaction of “Big Tech” raises even more concern. There exists a blockchain called “Sia” that was created to be a platform for decentralized data hosting. Anyone can use free space on their PC to be a host, and the data is seeded across…
Protecting Your Remote Workers
It’s been almost a year now, since the pandemic seemingly turned our worlds upside-down in what was seemingly an instant. Many workers who had never worked remotely began doing so on a regular basis. And while that was immensely helpful in curtailing the spread of the physical virus, e-viruses have flourished, as anyone with even…
Apple Patches: Update Your Apple Device NOW
Today, Apple offered emergency security patches for the iOS 14.4 and iPad OS 14.4 platforms, warning users that they found three separate security vulnerabilities… Vulnerabilities that hackers might already be in the process of exploiting. READ: DO NOT DELAY UPDATING YOUR iPHONE OR OTHER APPLE DEVICE!!! While Apple declined to provide in-depth vulnerability details, here…
Catch the Wave?
Waves are everywhere, even if you don’t see them. In fact, you can’t see them until you observe them- hence the very weird “double-slit” experiment. As patterns go, they extend for what appears to be forever. Don’t believe us? Just ask the fractal (rapidly expanding) universe. Talk about a bad case of entropy! Surprisingly, these…
Parler: Gets Hacked, Goes Black
It was a dark week in US politics last week, ranging from the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6 to impeachment papers being drafted on the president, for inciting said act. But it’s turning out to be a dark week for others, as well. Take John Matze, for example. He is the CEO…
All Aboard the Bitcoin Bandwagon: $40K and Beyond!
With only 8 days in, 2021 boasts a smorgasbord of choices for “Breaking News” headlines. Our favorite? Bitcoin. The flagship cryptocurrency has hit record milestones, making believers out of many. From Forbes: “The bitcoin price has added a staggering 400% over the last 12 months, climbing as institutional investors warm to the cryptocurrency and payments…
Physical and Cyber Security Breached in Capitol Building
The breach of the Capitol building this week was both shocking and scary, but what is clear from the pictures that are emerging is that it was not only the physical structure that was violated that day. What we have seen since Wednesday is that the MAGA rioters were able to not only able to…
Own Zyxel a Device? Update it NOW.
Critical Threat Discovered A hardcoded, admin-level backdoor vulnerability (CVE-2020-29583) has been found in over 1000,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers. Discovered by Eye Control researchers, these backdoor accounts can allow bad actors to access your information either via the web administration panel or the SSH interface This flaw is so vulnerable, in…
SolarWinds Breach: Did We Learn Our Lesson Yet?
With time going by and no real response from the White House regarding the SolarWinds breach, it can be pretty easy to forget about it and move on to the next media cycle. Because that’s what we tend to do here in the US. However, doing that is just NOT a good idea in this…