For quite a while now Google has been stuffing the first page of the search results. If you’re doing a local search for a garage door repairman in Rochester, New Jersey, you want to call someone right now to get the problem fixed. You probably DON’T want a directory like...
The New York Times published a lengthy article yesterday that reported on researcher’s suspicions of North Korea’s involvement in last week’s ransomware attack. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/nsa-hacking-shadow-brokers.html?_r=0 In the news business, it is axiomatic that the shorter the time-span between an event and the story hitting the headlines, the more likely it is...
Earlier this month (May 13, 2017) theintercept.com published an article by Sam Biddle describing how NYU had unintentionally allowed details of an advanced code-breaking computer to become accessible to the public. An unnamed digital security researcher had been rummaging around on shodan.io looking for anomalies; things that are available on...
Here’s a link to the NY Times animated map of how Wannacry spread across the...
Like Yogi Berra said “It aint over ’til it’s over” and Shadow Brokers is at it again! Friday’s ransomware attack was stopped by a 22 year old British lad, but in less than 48 hours, Shadow Brokers appears to have modified its virus and released it again in a new...
This is the latest I have on the Ransomware attack. You just can’t make this stuff up! From the UK news source The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/13/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack Here’s the short version of the story: A while back a group of hackers, who call them selves “Shadow Brokers” stole a bunch of software...
Flash is (nearly) dead. Google, maker of the popular Chrome browser, has announced that it will drop Adobe Flash support across all but a few websites, including YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitch and Amazon. Officially Adobe’s Flash Player will still be bundled with Chrome, but “its presence will not be advertised...