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On March 26th, 2018 by Mike Kemp

Facebook Data Harvesting

'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way

Sandy Parakilas in San Francisco. ‘It has been painful watching. Because I know that they could have prevented it.’ Photograph: Robert Gumpert

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica,

Ransomware in targeted attacks

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Ransomware can cost you a lot more than money.

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Ransomware’s popularity has attracted the attention of cyber criminal gangs; they use these malicious programs in targeted attacks on large organizations in order to steal money. In late 2016, we detected an increase in the number of attacks, the main goal of which was to launch an encryptor on an organization’s network nodes and servers. This is due to the fact that organizing such attacks is simple, while their profitability is high:

The cost of developing a ransom program is significantly lower compared to other types of malicious software.
These programs entail a clear monetization model.
There is a wide range of potential victims.

On January 3rd, 2018 by Logix IT Services

Ransomware - What you need to know!

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Ransomware is an extremely high risk cybersecurity threat that security industry experts worldwide, expect to grow significantly this year and beyond.

Ransomware is essentially malicious software that gives a hacker the ability to lock you out of your business by encrypting mission critical files on individual computers or across entire networks.

On March 20th, 2017 by Logix IT Services