Public sentiment towards Edward Snowden, source of the leak on the NSAs PRISM Program, varies between Traitor and Hero. As a result I’ve been asked numerous times in the last few weeks what the technology perspective is on him. First I have to say we don’t have all the facts. One side can jump to…
Read moreSpear-Phishing, targeted phishing, attacks are on the rise. The increase in these attacks is in many ways being linked to the increased use of mobile devices for online banking, browsing and email. Many of the attacks are taking aim at employees with administrative access to their business networks from their mobile devices. Criminals are using…
Read moreDecember 2011 the Economic Development Administration was notified by the Department of Homeland Security that there was a malware infection spreading around it’s network, referred to in the report as a “cyber-incident”. Malware infections happen, it’s why you keep a trusted computer company with IT professionals around to fix these problems. The Federal Gov’t, on…
Read moreApparently it’s that time of year – time for an uptick in scam emails appearing to be from big name companies we’re all familiar with. See the example below of a PayPal scam. It looks like they need some information from the email recipient, but a couple of quick actions will show you who is…
Read moreAccording to the Washington Post the NSA and FBI have been tapping directly in to the servers of nine of the biggest US Internet companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook and Apple. Per the document obtained by the Washington Post “Colllection directly from the servers of these US Service Providers…” Does this make you…
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