Apr 4, 2021 | news, Politics, security
It’s story time! Sit back and relax, I have a good one for you today. It’s not my story – all the credit belongs to Greg Miller and the Washington Post, who wrote a bombshell article about it a year ago. I’m going to boil it down to a thousand words because I...
Mar 14, 2021 | Facebook, news, Politics
In the 1990s we built a global communications network. The Internet revolutionized retailing and entertainment, changed how we get news, transformed our social lives, blah blah blah, you know all that, pizza delivery will never be the same, got it. There’s another...
Feb 11, 2021 | business, Microsoft, news, Politics, security
Quiet, isn’t it? We learned a couple of months ago that the Russians are embedded in almost every network that matters in our country, and nobody is talking about it. My guess is that tens of thousands of IT and security experts are crying themselves to sleep every...
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 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...
