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You cannot fight Mother Nature and think you will win. Today we had severe wind storms. Salt Lake City is now in a state of emergency. This morning on the way to the office we drove by Liberty Park. A [...]
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has a new tool in the fight against crime across the state. His name is Zeus, a 2-year-old, yellow Labrador Retriever with a special talent. He can sniff out electronic storage devices—like hard drives, [...]
When former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was charged earlier this month for his alleged role in the Uber data breach cover-up, it was the latest in a series of events for the ride-sharing company that date back to 2014. Sullivan, [...]
The University of Utah revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang $457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online. The incident is the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks where criminal groups steal sensitive [...]
The U.S. Secret Service reports that impostors using stolen identities have received hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits in states across the country. These sophisticated criminals, often based overseas, file unemployment claims using Social Security numbers and [...]
Whether you’re sick and can’t make it to work that day or there’s a pandemic affecting the world, working remotely has become vital for organizations. The importance of securing communications when it comes to remote work is clear, considering that [...]
While ransomware continues to be a major threat to enterprise IT environments around the world, a new family of ransomware poses a unique danger to companies with industrial control systems. Snake, also known as Ekans ("snake" spelled backward), follows the [...]
In January, the U.S. Department of Defense released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements, outlining new cybersecurity stipulations for DOD contractors. There is no deadline for compliance with this new standard, but defense contractors should expect to see its specifications [...]
As we reach the mid-way point of 2020 and the curious, crazy, and covid-19 world we live in - I thought it is time to rank the top five or best "free" tools for digital forensic examiners. For the past [...]
In February of this year, Google removed over 500 malicious plugins from the Chrome store which stole data from nearly 1.7 million users. While the tech-giant announced they have since taken several steps to improve the browser’s privacy and security protections, [...]
