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Despite their semi-public presence, it seems that ransoming a company that provides fuel to most of the eastern seaboard drew a little too much heat for the Colonial Pipeline hackers. Cybercrime researchers Intel 471 are reporting that the ransomware group Darkside has essentially ceased operations after it appears its technology infrastructure was disrupted or dismantled

Last week, a five-thousand mile fuel pipeline that spans the country from the Gulf Coast to New York was shut down by company operators because of a ransomware attack that had compromised parts of their technology infrastructure. According Colonial Pipeline Company, the pipeline wasn’t shutdown by the attack itself but enacted as a precautionary measure.

The previous two blogs have walked through some of the basic structure and background of Microsoft’s complex, cloud-based account platform, and we’ve touched somewhat on the reasons why you might have one or more Microsoft accounts. You will definitely have one if you’ve ever had a Hotmail.com or Outlook.com email address, and less common a

Last week I wrote about the Microsoft Account that you may or may not be using properly on your Windows 10 machine. Thanks to some very poor user interface decisions from the Windows 8 days as well as Microsoft’s behind-the-scenes efforts to move their vast Hotmail/Outlook.com/Live.com users into a monolithic (sort of) platform, it’s highly

When Microsoft introduced Windows 8 they introduced a new “feature” in the wizard that walks you through the process of setting up your new PC. This new feature was the ability to use a Microsoft account as your user login on the PC instead of the traditional user account that has been used for years

Despite the fact that a database containing personal information scraped from Facebook on over half a billion people has appeared on the internet and is available for anyone with a modicum of technical skill, Facebook doesn’t appear to be concerned at all, dismissing this particular news with a hand wave, “This is old data that