Text Bombed

This afternoon a “hacker” decided to text bomb my phone with about 1000 text messages asking me to paypal him $100 to stop. A couple of things: I don’t negotiate with terrorists. (I always wanted to say that.).  Part of the text bomb gave me information on how it was happening. After getting a couple … Read more

I helped a local company pay off hackers.

From time to time I get called by small organizations, law firms and companies in my local area to do some consulting on security issues.  Yesterday afternoon <redacted organization> called me and told me they were getting this pop up on one of their computers: That pop-up is known as CryptoLocker and once your machine … Read more