With the daily emergence of new hacking tools such as cryptowall, ransomware and phishing attacks, it looks like hackers are hoping you forgot about a common mistake some may make daily; typing…
Jordan Kadlec

Ransom32: The First JavaScript Ransomware
Security researchers have found a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) using JavaScript (JS) framework called NW.js. The new RaaS, tabbed as Ransom32, is different from other RaaS attacks as it is…
Hospital Becomes Victim of Ransomware Attack
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has become the latest victim of a ransomware attack, causing them to cease normal day-to-day operations. Hackers took the medical center’s system hostage over a…
Small Businesses Becoming Big Targets
The latest Government Security Breaches Survey found that nearly three-quarters of small organizations reported a security breach in the last year (2015) which is a 13% increase from the 2013 and…
Galois Awarded Contract to Combat DDoS Attacks
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Galois, Inc. with a $1.7 million dollar contract to defend against large and sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This…
Power Grid Cyberattack is Imminent
“It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” explains Ted Koppel when talking about terrorists going after the U.S. power grids. In his recently released book, “Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A…
Raytheon Awarded $1 Billion Contract
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Raytheon with a $1 billion cybersecurity contract in hopes that they will provide the federal government security against the onslaught of recent…
XcodeGhost - What? an iPhone hack?
Apple Inc. is currently cleaning up its iOS App Store to eliminate malicious iPhone and iPad programs recognized in the first extensive attack on the popular software outlet. Usually, these types of…
Stealing Your Money - Sphinx Banking Trojan
A new banking Trojan called Sphinx has surfaced in the criminal underground. Sphinx is said to be based on the source code of the notorious Zeus banking malware. Zeus, also known as Zbot, is a…