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What Do I Do if I have CryptoWall or CryptoLocker?
I am surprised how many people are still calling with CryptoLocker problems. I have gotten three calls in the past two days from people who have had infected/encrypted Cryptolocker files for as long as three months and they are just now dealing with the issue. At this point in time I am not even sure paying the ransom will work for victims as the CryptoLocker network was taken down a couple of months ago by international law enforcement and with CryptoWall users only have 30 days to comply with the ransom demands.
So what options do you have if you are like these recent callers?
How Do I Stop Being a Hostage to IT and the Six Reasons We Feel Like a Hostage?
Over the years we have seen many new clients come to Alvaka Networks feeling like they are hostages to Information Technology. These people feel this way for many different reasons. Most often the person feeling this way is the CFO, Controller, CEO, COO, IT manager or an IT technician for the most part in that order in terms of frequency.
Why do they feel that way?
It is usually because their systems were:
1. Poorly designed
2. They don’t work right
3. The system is insecure
4. No one knows what the last guy...
Technology advertisements that cross ethical, legal lines
It's hard to tell fact from fiction in technology advertisements, says technology and security consultant Kevin McDonald. These irresponsible claims about a product's compliance or security capabilities can have ethical and legal consequences. …I can't [...]
How is the New Apple iWatch just like the IBM PC?
If the IBM PC legitimized the PC market in 1981 and launched an explosion of sales and it created a whole new market, I predict the health-enabled Apple Watch will do the same. Prior to [...]
Unclear HIPAA rules permit healthcare data offshoring … for now
...Under the Final Rule, the OCR has the power to domestically deal out civil penalties, corrective actions and long-term monitoring, while the DOJ has the power to domestically deliver a criminal prosecution. Through enforcement under [...]
Electronic health records ripe for theft
The only difference in healthcare is that the large breaches have not gotten the sensational, but appropriate coverage credit card breaches have gotten.
Three other interesting quotes:
1. As health data becomes increasingly digital and the use of electronic health records booms, thieves see patient records in a vulnerable health care system as attractive bait, according to experts interviewed by POLITICO. On the black market, a full identity profile contained in a single record can bring as much as $500.
2. “Criminal elements will go where the money is,” said Wah, who was the first