Safe Harbor on Cyber is a 'safe harbor' blog site on cyber security for families and small businesses with news on cyber threats, risk, data breach, identity thefts, ransomware, cryptocurrency, and vulnerabilities items.
CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Cybercriminals: Techrepublic.com expands an obvious fact that United States have and will continue to lose the most money to cybercriminals More densely populated States have higher estimated losses, and the WBE uses FBI cybercrime data and insurance statistics to predict. Breakdown Stats on State Projected Loses to Cybercriminals California snatched
CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Ransomware Attacks Stats: Today I came across this story from zdnet.com that showcases that ransomware attacks in 2017 were the year of ransomware, but it could be that the file-encrypting malware has already reached its peak as data have validated below Such attacks, WannaCry and Petya caused serious disruption last year,
CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary License Management System Vulnerability: Today I came across this story from scmagazine.com that opens up little-known vulnerability in License Management System Used in Industrial Control Systems – Contains 14 Vulnerabilities May Enable Hackers to Control Systems and DoS Attacks. Some serious defects were found in the license management software used in
CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary: What is most likely to be an overlooked story from securityaffairs.co recaps a revealing find that Trend Micro’s security experts have analyzed the tools that malware and the Lazarus APT team have used in recent attacks on financial institutions.Trend Micro’s security experts analyzed the attack on the financial institutions by the infamous
CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Firefox and Chrome Browser: Threatpost.com focuses a revealing waited for both updated patches on Mozilla and Google, Firefox and Chrome browsers this week and added important security patches, all while enhancing the privacy and security of their users. One noted Google patch is on the mitigations against speculative side-channel attack techniques. Google on Wednesday introduced
CyberWisdom Safe Harbor Commentary on Cozy Bear: A must-read story from nltimes.nl and The Hill focused on things we don’t talk about but according to a groundbreaking report by NOSB and the Volkskrant newspaper, two intelligence agencies in the Netherlands have found plenty of evidence detailing how Russian-backed Cozy Bear, hackers have infiltrated the Obama White House,
