As reported by Tuscaloosa News, the three hospitals in Alabama recently hit with ransomware failed in their security and their response to the incident. While we don't know about the surrounding circumstances, the hospitals did receive a decryption key to recover their data – a decryption key they likely received by paying the attacker’s ransom. Based off what we know, these … [Read more...]
Pew Research Spreading Misinformation
Pew Research recently asked adults in the US some basic digital knowledge questions as a part of a research study. Out of 10 questions asked, only 20% scored 70% or higher with correct answers. There are some concerns about the questions Pew used though. While the survey asks some good questions, one of the questions doesn’t relate to digital knowledge. It asks to identify a … [Read more...]
How I Almost Fell For a Netflix Phish
Early this morning I received an email about my Netflix payment not going through. Scams often come in the form of payment requests, so I normally ignore these emails. However, yesterday my wife subscribed to Netflix and I wasn't sure which email she used. While on the bus I looked over the email, but I couldn't look at the email source since I'm using my phone. I had no way to … [Read more...]
Ransomware Hits The Top Three Most Concerning Risks For CEOs
In a recent report by Marsh (an insurance consultancy) and Microsoft, 79% of CEOs list cyber attacks in the top five risks in their company, overtaking economic concerns between 2017 and today by a wide margin. We consistently see the results of cyber attacks and data dumps, and couldn’t agree more. One only needs to look at the cost for a ransomware attack to understand why … [Read more...]
LastPass, an Extremely Valuable Target for Hackers
Last week, researcher Tavis Ormandy from Google Project Zero found and published a vulnerability in The LastPass browser extension. The vulnerability affects the Chrome and Opera extensions and could allow a malicious server to capture LastPass credentials. Neither LastPass nor Project Zero released details on how this exploit works but by reviewing the notes from Project Zero … [Read more...]
