“9-1-1 what’s your emergency?” “I’ve been hacked! And so have you!” Sounds silly, but this was reality for Baltimore Maryland’s emergency dispatch service, which was hacked last week. It lasted 17 hours, and during that time, all calls and dispatches had to be operated manually, and it delayed emergency services. The details? An unidentified
New York City is giving their citizens free cyber security. Is government control the future of Internet safety, or will it bust? Read to find out. “New Yorkers aren’t safe online. And we cannot wait around for other levels of government to do something about it or the private sector to do something about
DDoS. The acronym that strikes fear into the minds of those with computer knowledge, and the one that makes people go, Huh…? if they don’t (have computer knowledge, that is). If you have no clue what DDoS stands for you may think it’s just a phrase that gets passed around on the tongues of
One of our partners here at Fibernet has been awarded the Best-In-Class security solution and Product of the Year. We would like to congratulate our partners at Bitdefender for the awesome work they have done, and products they have created! Bitdefender develops and sells cyber security products, including but not limited to, antirvirus software,
When the first Congress met, on March 4, 1789, you can bet that none of them were thinking about the terms cyber space, ransomware, or stolen data. Even if they had read the most advanced science fiction of the time, those words were not bounding around on the newly printed pages. Besides, they had
On March 22, 2018 the city of Atlanta was hit with a ransomware attack. It is believed that a server was left vulnerable and the infection began there. Luckily critical infrastructures, such as the airport, water and public safety, were not affected. The ransomware spread to desktop computers through out the city’s network. The
In a new press release from Indiana University, they made an exciting announcement about a new cyber security operations center. It is located at Indiana University and is a joint partnership with Northwestern University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Talk about some heavy hitters joining up to fight crime! They
Over 1.4 billion users engage with Facebook everyday. That is a huge amount of information that ends up in their hands! And, in the past week, it was revealed that Facebook was involved in a proposed security breach (with a company no one knew of before now) called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is a
Now would be nice, but in reality we (we being humanity as a whole) wanted them yesterday. As technology solidifies itself deeper and deeper into society and culture, it creates intense opportunities for businesses and individuals alike. Along with that comes intense opportunities for the flip side of the coin – cyber criminals. In
…cyber attacks? Sounds like a lot of fun, right? Take one down and you’ve still got almost 900 million cyber attacks! That’s what the Utah state government says they get average daily. Can you imagine getting that many attacks in one day? Two years ago they were averaging about 150 million a day. That is
