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Two separate reports have come in this week detailing the increasing tide of cyber attacks intending to sow politically-motivated disruption through the spread of misinformation and by targeting specific political organizations and government bodies. Microsoft was first to the gate with news that its Digital Crimes Unit (bet you didn’t know they had that!) executed

Scareware isn’t a new trend – we’ve been seeing fake “FBI warnings” on our computer screens long enough that even the most technology naive among us knows not to pay their “online fine”, and the crime of extortion has been around as long as humanity has used currency. Unfortunately for all of us, cybercriminals have

Even though most of us know Amazon as the world’s largest drain on everyone’s wallet, they do quite a bit more not generally visible to their adoring public, including developing a now-controversial face recognition platform called “Rekognition” intended for use by law enforcement agencies. “Controversial” because of a recent report released by the American Civil

We’ve known since at least 2013 that American utility companies are under constant cyber attack, but at the time I wrote that blog four years ago, lawmakers and the industry believed that their security was sufficient to withstand the incursions. Welcome to 2018, where everything is getting hacked, including, yes, American power utilities. According to

It’s easy to be snide from my blogging armchair – it’s one of the many questionable things that the internet has made possible. It also enabled the existence of two of the largest companies in the world, Amazon and Google, which makes it all the more ironic, amusing and somewhat disheartening that these same companies