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Ransomware attack shuts down college. Permanently.
Having your company’s operations halted due to a ransomware attack is pretty high up on the list of nightmare situations for any business owner. Depending on the severity of the attack and the state of your backups and business continuity plan, this could mean days of downtime while data is restored, and systems sanitized. In
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T-Mobile hackers grab source code, try to hack govt accounts
Last year we wrote about T-Mobile getting massively hacked, which essentially led to their entire customer database being leaked. This was a problem because among the information leaked were cell numbers and their associated, unique IMEI numbers which in theory could result in phones getting duped and/or services for accounts being switched to a different
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Why does everything have a password?
For those of us who’ve been using computers in the workplace for more than a decade or longer, we have frequent “Pepperidge Farm moments” about technology (and other stuff too, let’s be honest!) but for good reason. How many of you have been grinding through emails for the better part of a Monday morning, gathering
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Apple AirTags used to stalk women
Back in February I wrote about a nasty new trend of hiding Apple’s AirTags to covertly track targets for various illicit and possibly harmful pursuits. At the time, the media had a handful of reports of the small tracking devices being used to locate and steal cars, and 2 high-profile instances of alleged stalking but
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Personal vigilance won’t be enough
Though it won’t be something most of us would like to hear, staying safe in technology is no longer a matter of being savvy, street-smart and vigilant. The concept of “rugged individualism” is considered one of the foremost tenets of American culture and stems from the countless (and most likely glorified) stories of pioneers and
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(In)famous Kaspersky software put on FCC watch list
Though it doesn’t come as a surprise to most of the IT community, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently added Russian software developer Kaspersky to its list of companies that should not be used by any entity that receives funding through the FCC. Given the current geopolitical climate, this move probably shouldn’t surprise most everyone
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