“Thomas Brown of The Brown Firm in Florida was yet another victim of a ransomware attack which encrypted his data, leaving him out of business and without access to his data. The cybercriminals demanded $2500 in bitcoin for the decryption key. The firm said that they had to pay up or lose all their data…
I’m sure you’ve all seen the news that has spread across the internet and social media recently. Teens are not using Twitter and Facebook, they’ve moved on to other social networks. Well, I did see one article that tried to explain why they are spending their time on other networks, and it’s not just because…
“Whether we like it or not every lawsuit now has ESI and IT is responsible for helping protecting ESI.” This is one of those things that I don’t think the legal industry truly understands. IT’s job is first and foremost about keeping all the technology running and proiding useful solutions to business needs. Keeping track…
“Until a year or 2 ago, the best-known program for creating and using encrypted container files was TrueCrypt, which was open source and widely supported with millions of users. Then the project was abruptly shut down. No one quite knows why, but rumours persist that the developers were formally discouraged from maintaining something that could…
“According to research 77 percent of people said that they did not feel that public Wi-Fi was any less secure than their own personal internet connection, 75 percent also said that they wouldn’t curb their activity on public Wi-Fi and they weren’t conscious of anything they may need to avoid doing whilst using it, showing…
“Also appearing to be correct were reports that the “hacking” that took place in this instance was of the less hack-y variety and more of the let’s-try-the-guy’s-old-password-y. “ Yeah so, let’s learn a lesson here people. Don’t start a new job with the same password you used at your old job, OK? Yes, using the…