Category Archives: Security Blog

CryptoWall and Dickson County Sheriff’s Office

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Carmelo

Sheriff’s department of The Dickson County, Tennessee was attacked by a Ransomware trojan ware that encrypts all of the files on the system and can be decrypted only (HA, yeah right!) if the ransom has been paid for them to … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Community 2013 Is Free

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Carmelo

Start coding the app of your dreams for Windows, Android, and iOS. http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs Pair that up with Microsoft Virtual Academy, for free coding lessons. Here is the official blog post on giving Visual Studio away.

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The Raspberry Pi: Impact on Hacking

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Carmelo

So, this video is a little old, but very relevant. Sure the Raspberry Pi has been available for some time now, but has the awareness about them spread out of IT and into the minds of the business leaders? Are … Continue reading →

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Privacy Comic: The Phone Book

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Carmelo

It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted to find somebody, you just looked in the phone book. It’s a little more evolved now.

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Conmen Evolved

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Carmelo

Unless you are completely off the grid and don’t even read newspapers, it is hard to avoid the data breaches announced in the news. It’s not just techie news anymore either, with the big named news shows on the television … Continue reading →

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Marine Corps Birthday Message 2014

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Carmelo

Happy birthday my brothers and sisters!

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The Postal Service Suffered a Cybersecurity Breach

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Carmelo

The data of 800,000 people potentially compromised for employee and customer personal information, including addresses, Social Security numbers and emails. The USPS is working with the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team to investigate the breach. … Continue reading →

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Operation Onymous… 414 Onion sites Taken Offline/Seized

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Carmelo

Tor (The Onion Router) is an anonymizing program that allows access to the Dark Web, it works by basically routing packets through an anonymous proxy network. (See Searching the Deep Web) Europol, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security, … Continue reading →

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Brain-to-Brain Communication Over the Internet

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Carmelo

Wow, that’s cool! I would like to coin the phrase “Cybernotic Suggestion” for when brain-to-brain communication over the Internet is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack and the receiving end of the mind comm. gets suggested brain waves.

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Remember, Remember, The 5th of November

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Carmelo

Anonymous is a truth movement advocating hacktivism as self-defense for unconstitutional government. It is our aim to shed light on corrupt government in order to set people free from oppression. Read more about the Million Mask March. Guy Fawkes is … Continue reading →

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