BANGLADESH BOTS When you hear Bangladesh, what do you think of? A troubled political past and dangerous Bengal tigers roaming around? Recently, Utah Elections Director Justin Lee announced that Facebook had discovered a bot farm from Bangladesh had launched a disinformation campaign. This campaign had the goal of disrupting the general midterm election in Utah.
Kids are back to school, and we’re starting to sense it’s time to put away the beach towels and pull out the wool blankets. Here in Utah Valley, the Wasatch mountains already show sprinkles of red and orange among the green, and the warm summer mornings are full of cool fall breezes and scents
What are deepfakes? Deepfakes are doctored videos that are made using layers of video and AI. Wikipedia describes them as “…combin[ing] and superimpose[ing] images and videos onto source images or videos.” They are used to create celebrity porn, social hoaxes, and, increasingly, to provide fake news content. Often the face of a well known person,
TIP: tldr summary at the bottom. Some of the worst words (when strung in a sentence) in the English language are, “I have been hacked!” Let’s be honest, even if you said them in Norwegian or Cantonese, they are just as bad. But even worse is the feeling and thoughts that come after that, because
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,
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
In this day and age, dealing with cyber security threats is a normal part of business. Predictions are out that these threats are only going to increase each year as the man power, and the computer power, behind these attacks rises. There are more and more services becoming available as this industry grows. Fibernet recently
Forbes has created a list of over fifty cyber security predictions for 2018. We picked out 7 of the most important – check them out! The end of the year is fast approaching, and that means a new year full of new technology, updates and upgrades, and bigger and better things. Unfortunately, it also
