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A few months back I wrote a blog called, Don’t Get Caught by a Ransomware Gang. The blog warned that ransomware gangs are loading malware onto computers. Back then the threat was in the form of unwanted encryption of your [...]
If you read all the press releases from many of the new vendors then the answer is yes, there is much hype surrounding the “cloud”. If you read the results from the latest Tech Target Cloud Adoption Index you would [...]
I am on a flight to Florida for the OPDA Conference where I will learn from the best and brightest of my peers the current trends and the hottest new technologies. On flights like this, I take the opportunity [...]
If you are a healthcare covered entity or a business associate to a healthcare provider you better get on your encryption game. If you have not done your risk assessment you better do that, too. Here is a good article [...]
There are easy ways to stay off of the Healthcare “Wall of Shame.” One of the most effective ways is to encrypt the hard drives on your mobile devices, PCs and servers. We have recently developed a solution to encrypt [...]
Here is a really helpful free tool on the Internet to “grade” your website. I first heard about it from my friend David Dadian the CEO at Powersolutions.com. It is called HubSpot and you can reach it at http://marketing.grader.com/ I took [...]
Tomorrow I speak at the Technolink conference in Los Angeles. I was asked to talk on the subject of computer security, Ransomware, the Obama executive orders on national infrastructure security and other recent topics affecting businesses that use information technology [...]
You can rest a little better tonight knowing one of these gangs has been caught and they will be going to jail. Be warned because there are many other similar scams out there. The gangs target inadequately protected computers [...]
Last week President Obama issued another executive order regarding cyber security. He followed up in his State of the Union speech by talking about foreign actors trying to sabotage our critical national infrastructure and private companies. The use of executive [...]
Microsoft is releasing 12 patches on Tuesday for a near record 57 vulnerabilities. This release is only bested by the 64 vulnerabilities of April 2011.Five of the patches are critical. Two of those five are for Internet Explorer versions 6, [...]
