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On December 23, 2015 parts of Ukraine were without power and the blackout was due to black hat hackers using the sophisticated BlackEnergy trojan horse malware. (click here for full story) The BlackEnergy trojan was able to disable parts of Ukraine’s power grid leaving organizations and neighborhoods in the dark…are you, your organization and your local power grid utility paying attention? The BlackEnergy trojan also delivered a version of KillDisk that overwrites data and documents with random data and can make the Operating System unbootable…are you paying attention? And AGAIN…the way the black hat hackers are getting BlackEnergy into the power grid organization is usingRead More →

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  Last week financial executives received some valuable advice on ways to significantly reduce costs associated with an expensive non-budgeted item – cybercrime. Greg Schaffer heads up DHS’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications and his comments on cybercrime included: “Cybercrime is not a problem that is growing, or coming, or off in the future.  This is a problem right now.” Mr. Schaffer also cited some statistics from reports and surveys: A single cyber breach costs companies an average of $6.75 million  27 countries have claimed to have experienced financial losses related to cybercrime In 2009, 30 million examples of new malicious software were released  Read More →