Albeit improved in all the wrong ways. CryptoWall 2.0 is ransomware that falls into the same category as CryptoLocker, CryptorBit, TorrentLocker, the original CryptoWall, etc. As one would expect with anything labeled 2.0 there have been improvements made to the original CryptoWall, in this case making it all the more insidious. The original CryptoWall…
Read moreI will start by saying that some technical mischief as a teenager (or later) does not automatically make a prospective employee undesirable. More often than not it makes them more desirable because you know they’ve been willing to dig in and get their hands dirty. Whether that means they took the family computer apart and…
Read moreThis is some of the best news the world of anti-viruses and anti-malware could have hoped for – FireEye in conjunction with Fox-IT have found and released a potential way to retrieve the private decryption key needed to decrypt files infected by CryptoLocker. We have previously written several articles on CryptoLocker, the ransomware that began…
Read moreRecently more than 1,000 small to mid sized businesses were surveyed, by Spiceworks, about their data backup and recovery budgets, technologies, and planning. According to the survey results 45% of the respondents said their business had experienced a data loss and of those data losses 54% were due to a hardware failure, 28% were due…
Read moreI cannot emphasize it enough Be careful when opening any email attachment where you aren’t sure of the sender or the attachment! If you don’t know who sent it, delete it; if it’s important the person sending it to you will contact you or you can call that person yourself. If you know the sender, but…
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