by wwarren | Oct 5, 2016 | Internet, Security, Security Alerts
I have always blocked ads. I knew that having a third party serve you ads with questionable security means these ad servers would be a problem for internet users. Sure enough Spotify ads were compromised by malware authors and for a while your Spotify was now an...
by wwarren | Oct 2, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Google, IOT, Security, Security Alerts
When the Yahoo hack was revealed I absolutely dismissed Yahoos assertions of a nation state actor. I have been waiting for the independent investigations to play out and now the REAL reason for the hack has come out. Yahoo internal security was poor. Unlike Google,...
by wwarren | Oct 1, 2016 | Cloud Computing, DDOS, Internet, IOT, Security, Security Alerts
Krebonsecurity editor Brian Krebs now posts showing the source code for the botnet that forced Akamai/Prolexic to boot him off their network. What is amazing is that while Prolexic was struggling to handle nearly 700 megabits there was another even larger DDOS going...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2016 | General, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
AdBlockPlus now means we will blocks ads PLUS give you ads folks pay them to allow. I saw the initial link at hackernews but the full story is on theverge. A couple of years ago I heard that the company behind ADB+ wanted to start allowing certain ads through for...
by wwarren | Aug 9, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Security, Security Alerts
I have said it again and again. You should NOT have a POS system that is cloud based. Nothing that need to be kept confidential should be cloud based. Oracle bought Micros a couple of years ago to add to its cloud offerings. As I have said again and again, the...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Internet, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
Windows has issues that make it easy for this type of infection to take hold: Javascript once it gets onto the system is run by the Windows Scripting Host which has a very high level of system access. Windows hides file extensions so the .js extension...
