A fake FedEx email is making the rounds and because the link to get the shipping information is cleverly hidden in an image you might be tempted to click before evaluating the legitimacy of this email. We’ll take this email apart step by step so you can get an understanding of just how fake it…
Read moreAlbeit 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 moreThere’s no such thing as a free lunch is as true today as when it was first written in the 1930s, as well as it’s likely origin in the once common practice of saloons in America offering a “free” lunch to any patron who purchased at least one drink. Today, you can take that adage and…
Read moreThere is a fundamental flaw in the firmware on USB sticks and a pair of hackers has made public the code for really bad malware that takes advantage of that flaw. In August, at DefCon in Las Vegas, researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack called BadUSB which proved it is possible to corrupt any USB…
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…
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