Month: February 2023

  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a recovery script for victims of the ESXiArgs ransomware variant. Story on Dark Reading  

  Fans of science fiction hear ‘metaverse’ and think Neal Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash’ or William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’… Story on TechRepublic  

  A failure to install software patches has allowed hackers to spread ransomware to hundreds of vulnerable servers across the globe. Story on PCMag  

  Before there was OpenAI’s ChatGPT, during the summer months of 2022, Google’s LaMDA program was the most controversial chatbot in the world… Story on ZDNet  

  Have you ever tried to unsubscribe from an email newsletter that you never signed up for, only to find a mishmash of text… Story on PCMag  

  Check Point has exposed a crypter dubbed TrickGate developed by cybercriminals and sold as a service… Story on TechRepublic  

  “Not to put too fine a point on it, I’m more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked…” Story on ZDNet  

  An old joke goes, “What kind of writing is most lucrative? A ransom note.” It’s funny but not as true as it used to be… Story on PCMag  

  Cyber criminals are using uniquely crafted phishing emails to infect victims with malware — and they’re doing so by experimenting… Story on ZDNet  

  No matter where you get your news, you can’t avoid seemingly weekly stories about the latest data breach. Story on PCMag