Feb 7, 2021 | business, news, Politics, security
This is mostly about scary Russians but don’t skip it – there’s also an important lesson for you about your own security. The Russians hacked into Solarwinds in September 2019. (You didn’t know that. It’s six months earlier than all the reporting about this hack...
Jan 31, 2021 | business, news, Politics, security
If you’ve been following along, then you know that Russian hackers slipped malware into Solarwinds updates that went out to 18,000 corporate customers and government agencies last year. I hear you saying, whoa, slow down, cowboy! The hackers “slipped malware” into the...
Jan 27, 2021 | business, law, Politics, security
Forget what you know about hacking. Nation-state hackers work at an entirely different level. Imagine that you get hacked – the bad guys get the password to your mailbox, say. The next step for most hacking attacks is that the bad guys do something that you will...
Jan 24, 2021 | business, news, Politics, security
Last month we discovered that Russian hackers have been running malware for almost a year in network servers used by thousands of large US companies and government agencies. It’s the largest espionage hack in history. As far as we know. We have all been suffering from...
Dec 21, 2020 | Android, Apple, business, Chrome, Facebook, Google, Internet, law, Microsoft, mobile, news, Office, Office 365, Office tips, OneDrive, Outlook, Politics, Privacy, security, web_services, Windows tips, Windows10
We made it to the end of 2020! Almost done with Season 4 of the miniseries from hell, “The Decline And Fall Of The American Trumpire.” The next 29 days will move at a pace that makes glaciers look speedy, just like the last nine months. The best we can hope is that...
Dec 17, 2020 | business, Facebook, law, Politics
In the last article I said that the Facebook lawsuits “will be difficult to win under the standards used in antitrust cases for the last few decades.” Rather precise phrasing, eh? It’s a literary trick called foreshadowing. I hope you felt the dramatic tension rise...
