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Choosing options

By Richard Arneson The midterms are over, most of the concession speeches have been grudgingly made, which thankfully means no more yard signs or unwanted texts from candidates, and no longer having to hear “This message has been approved by…” at the end of competitor-bashing ads. But now it’s time

Network security

By Richard Arneson If you’ve never seen video of it, it’s happened a few times. Two pugilists—in this case MMA fighters—knock each other out simultaneously. You can see it for yourself, it’s good for a chuckle—go 35 seconds in—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZLvsXs-sQ.This is exactly what you’d like to see when two (2) botnets

Hiring a hacker

By Richard Arneson In just nine (9) short years, ridesharing company Uber has risen from a small, San Francisco-based startup to a highly disruptive, $6.5 billion juggernaut that, along with its competitor Lyft, has given over 2 million people with a car and spare time on their hands the opportunity

Phishing is up

By Richard Arneson We’re entering the holiday season, which used to mean trips to the mall, circling the parking lot for a spot within a hundred yards of the door, and trying to get the clerk to accept a coupon that expired a year ago. But that’s all changed. Now

Texas A&M cyber threats

By Richard Arneson Some things just don’t make sense, like why when a baseball hits the foul pole it’s a fair ball. Shouldn’t it be called the fair pole? Or why hot dogs come in packs of ten (10) but the buns in quantities of eight (8). Oh, and how

cryptojacking

By Richard Arneson It’s one (1) of the most common speed bumps on the Internet highway—the Adobe Flash Player update message. It’s unexpected and never welcome—a little like a tornado, but not quite that bad. It may not trump some of the other digital speed bumps, like the Windows update

SD-WAN security

By Richard Arneson You wouldn’t be doing your job if IT security wasn’t at your mind’s forefront, especially if you’re looking to move to a new technology like SD-WAN. Hopefully the It won’t happen to us mindset has given way to a It can happen to anybody—we better be fully

Malware

By Richard Arneson Hopefully the answer is a resounding “NO”, but the Brazilian banking industry has recently been hit hard by “GhostDNS”, so named by China-based security research firm NetLab, which discovered the sinister malware in September. The phishing infection has hijacked over 100,000 routers in South America’s largest country

Gen V

By Richard Arneson Gen X, Gen Y, NextGen, 5G, 4G…if you could buy stock in the number of ways Gen has been used, I’d be the first to reach for my checkbook. Here’s another one, and may possibly be the most important―Gen V. Gen V is what Checkpoint, a 25-year-old