Cisco Outage On Thursday, October 10, 2019 a network outage hit Cisco Systems affecting their entire network. A Cisco spokesperson said in an interview with TechCrunch that the disruption was traced to an internal system change. The problem, however, isn’t the outage it’s the absence of a disaster recovery plan. The outage lasted for about […]
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DoorDash Data Breach The food delivery company DoorDash was compromised on May 4th 2019. The company said the data breach exposed the data of 4.9 million users, delivery workers and merchants. Fortunately, users who made accounts after April 5, 2018 were not affected by the breach. However, the breach exposed names, phone numbers, order histories, […]
In May 2017, there was a massive, worldwide ransomware attack known as WannaCry that targeted computers running on Microsoft Windows operating system. Organizations that had not installed the Microsoft security updates were affected by the attack. If you’re reading this thinking, “That’ll never happen to me or my business,” you’re not alone, but you’re likely […]
Cyber-attacks are becoming ever more frequent, affecting local business, schools and even cities. Most recently, it was reported that Riviera Beach had to pay 65 bitcoins, which is the equivalent of $600,000, to hackers after a government employee clicked on a malicious email link three weeks ago. This was a classic case of ransomware. A […]
