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Malwarebytes
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Future Lawyer
Computer Security – Best Ransomware Protection Is Malwarebytes.
By rickgeorges
White Paper - Defeating Ransomware. The best way to protect against criminals is to present a difficult target. Nothing is completely secure. However, computer users and companies who want to…
Your IT Consultant
Everything You Wanted to Know About Wi-Fi: But Were Afraid to Ask
By John Simek
As the pandemic descended upon us, the work-from-home environment tremendously increased the usage and strain on Wi-Fi networks. For the future, it appears there will be even more of our…
Your IT Consultant
Another PDF Redaction Screwup
By John Simek
Another day, another dollar. It is still absolutely amazing that anyone responsible for redacting a document can be totally incompetent. Another report, brought to you by Malwarebytes, tells the story…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Malwarebytes Hit by SolarWinds Hackers
Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity firm, confirmed this week that the same hackers believed to originate from Russia who were behind the SolarWinds incident were able to access some of its internal…
Attorney at Law Magazine
What You, Elon Musk & Bill Gates Have in Common as COVID-19 Hacks Surge
You would think that people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates would have bulletproof cybersecurity. But in July, their Twitter accounts were hacked along with the accounts of Warren Buffett,…
Socially Aware Blog
Social Links: A report suggesting DMCA changes; a new social-media-use regulation for Fla. Bar members; big changes at Facebook
A new report from the U.S. Copyright Office suggests that Congress should fine-tune the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to, among other things, alter the takedown system that platforms must…
Socially Aware Blog
Computer Service Providers Face Implied Limits on CDA Immunity
By J. Alexander Lawrence, Janelle Hyun
Often lauded as the most important law for online speech, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) does not just protect popular websites like Facebook, YouTube and Google from…
Your IT Consultant
Say It Isn’t So: MacOS Targeted More Than Windows
By John Simek
Apple users are not going to be happy with the latest Malwarebytes State of Malware report. The Register reported, "Describing this as an "exponential" increase, the firm said that detections…
Ride the Lightning
Ransomware Demands Get a Lot More Expensive and Cyberinsurance Costs are Rising
The Insurance Journal reported (via Reuters) on January 26 that U.S. insurers are ramping up cyber-insurance rates by as much as 25% and trying to curb exposure to vulnerable customers…
Health Law Insider
Trickbot and Emotet Financial Malware Now Attacking the Healthcare Industry
By Jon Washburn
In a recent Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Report focusing on the health care industry, cybersecurity company Malwarebytes discovered a significant 82% spike in Trojan malware attacks on health care organizations…