Views: 2,942 Crypto ransomware is a type of malware that holds you ransom by encrypting your files and has been around for a while, but the FBI recently said at a cyber security summit that they advise companies that fall victim just to pay. Such malware tends to use pretty strong encryption algorithms like RSA-2048, […]
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FBI Investigating Gawker Media User Database Password Ownage
Views: 15,268 After the non-stop action with WikiLeaks last week, the big news this week is the hack carried out on Gawker Media which exposed their users e-mail addresses and passwords. More than 200,000 password hashes (very lightly encrypted with DES) and e-mail combos can be downloaded on-line as a torrent file. Now this has […]
Former Dark Market Admin Faces 10 Year Jail Sentence
Views: 14,105 [ad] You may remember a while back in 2008 it was uncovered (at least publically) that DarkMarket was actually an FBI Sting Operation. Insiders had apparently known since 2006 that one of the admins was actually an undercover FBI agent. Countless cases have gone to court with the evidence and contacts gathered in […]
Ensuring Data Security During Hardware Disposal
Views: 4,845 [ad] After our recent story about the trading of BlackBerries for data theft the issue has emerged again this time more towards the secure disposal of data stored on PC hard disks. If a company or organisation has a decent data/information security policy in place (Like ISO27001 for example) they should have a […]
Government Accountability Office Report Slams FBI Internal Security
Views: 6,013 [ad] Ah, FBI slammed again, it’s not the first time this has happened. Remember when a Consultant Breached FBI’s Computers? It also reminds me of when Homeland Security Scored an F for Internal Security AGAIN The Government Accountability Office, the federal government’s watchdog agency, Thursday released a report critical of the FBI’s internal […]