I assume you have some sort of password set up to prevent unauthorized access to your Windows 10 tablet or PC. If you have a device capable of using Windows 10 facial recognition, hopefully you’re using that as well. The […]
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The US Senate and House both voted this week to overturn privacy rules that had been adopted by the FCC last year. The rules had not actually gone into effect yet, but thanks to Congress your internet service provider is
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If anything has been clear in the last couple of years, it’s that the barriers to becoming a successful cybercriminal keep coming down. Internet connectivity is more accessible, technology is more affordable, and traditionally ‘dumb’ devices are smarter. This has
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DNS amplification attacks have been used for several years. The Spamhaus attack of 2013 was the first large scale DDoS attack using DNS amplification. This attack reached up to 300Gbps and involved up to 30,000 open DNS resolvers. The attack
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A lack of qualified security professionals is putting businesses at risk of increasingly complex and dangerous cyber threats. “Every year the number of threats and the sophistication of those threats escalate,” says Alice Hill, Managing Director at Dice.com. “It’s a
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In the last few years we have seen several high-profile Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against political and financial targets. Many of us remember the attack against Occupy Central in 2014 and the attack against the Church of Scientology
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I live near an intersection ruled by four-way stop signs. Driving through it often becomes an awkward experience. Some people stop for longer than necessary, disrupting the usual order while gesturing for other drivers: “No, you go.” Others blow through
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Threat actors are always looking for new ways to infect as many users as possible with their malicious payloads. As a means to this end, these threat actors get creative with the types of files they use to deliver their
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Cyberspace has become an increasingly attractive hunting ground for criminals, activists and terrorists. The technical capabilities and influence of cybercriminals are now equal to those of many governments and organizations. In the next few years, these capabilities will extend far
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One of the interesting announcements this week was Watson For Cybersecurity. While it has been rumored that Watson has been tied to DOD and Intelligence efforts for some time this is the first time we’ve seen Watson’s powerful AI engine
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