I was just reading a critical assessment today of Alvaka Networks’ website, and how we position our company in our messaging. There is considerable talk in the assessment about the application economy and DevOps, and how Alvaka is not messaging [...]
Last year I read a blog, Star Wars: I Find Your Lack of Segmentation Disturbing and I found it to be utterly entertaining, but also spot on. As we approach the release of a new Star Wars movie in December, [...]
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Oli Thordarson, CEO of Alvaka Networks Alvaka Networks has a series of pages on various IT compliance regulations for sectors like HIPAA, PCI, DFARS and more. Many of these pages have web forms visitors can fill in for more information, [...]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines regarding secure passwords. Who is NIST? NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency whose purpose is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by [...]
A 10 attorney law firm discovered the cost of failing to protect its systems from ransomware the hard way. An attorney clicked on a phishing e-mail, leading to a ransomware attack. The firm apparently did not have a [...]
If you must comply with NIST 800-171 under DFARS you may wonder what has changed with the first revision, released in December, 2016. There are two substantive changes: "Information Systems" has been replaced by "Systems" throughout the document. This mean the [...]
There has been a lot of discussion about the method of propagation and the overall impact of this ransomware, but what does this ransomware actually do from start to finish? Click HERE or on the image below to see the [...]
Here are a couple of snippets from Perth Now Sunday Times in Australia ANOTHER large-scale, stealthy cyber-attack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week’s assault on computers worldwide. The new attack targets the same vulnerabilities the WannaCry [...]
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Whether you request our assistance or do the work of protecting yourself, not acting could be a very costly choice.
Critical news:
As you have likely heard in the national news, networks all over the world (in more than 150 countries) have been infected by WannaCryp Ransomware also known as WannaCry since Friday 5/12/2017…in fact it is estimated that 100s of thousands of computers are already infected and potentially million more will soon be. So, before we move into the details of why this matters, please DO NOT OPEN any attachments, click on links in emails from unknown senders, bring in un-scanned USB drives or otherwise invite an infection into your network.
What does ransomware do?
There are different types of ransomware but, all of them will prevent you from using your PC or server normally. They will then ask you to do something such as pay money before you can access your systems and data. Not all but most make getting data back impossible without
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