WOO ON TECH

Last week, reports started surfacing about an unusual phishing attack that was spreading via Google docs. It was unusual in that it was spreading via a previously undiscovered weakness in Google’s typically tight security, as well as not seeming to have the expected signatures of a traditional phishing attack, eg. stealing your logins and passwords.

In recent weeks we’ve reported on the largely unnoticed cyber warfare being fought among the Internet of Things (IoT) – “unnoticed” primarily because the IoT consists of devices which are meant to be left unattended, and as such are often compromised for long periods of time before someone realizes something is wrong. Another quiet war

Following the advent of the Mirai virus that dragooned over 100K web-connected security cameras and NVRs to form an attack botnet, a hacker wrote a bit of malware dubbed BrickerBot that also targeted insecure devices like the ones vulnerable to the Mirai malware. Unlike Mirai, the botnet formed by the BrickerBot malware was used to actually disable

Most reasonable people know they are not perfect, and even accept that they don’t need to be, but it doesn’t stop us from continually striving to improve. We use technology to do things faster, longer, further, and any number of other “-ers” you can think of, typically in the name of being better. The fundamental reason

When I attended Cal State University Northridge over twenty years ago, I was already well into my career as a technology consultant. Instead of pursuing a degree in Information Systems or Computer Engineering I chose to complete my degree in English Composition, not because I didn’t love technology, but because the courses offered in most

As a parent, I fight a constant battle with my daughter about whether she is dressed appropriately for the day’s weather conditions. Even though we are making slow progress as she matures and is starting to apply experiential learning to her decisions, there’s still a lot of back and forth, “This jacket will be too