What You Need to Know About the Latest Hacking Technique
Have you ever borrowed a friend’s charging cable? Maybe a complete stranger when you were at a coffee shop? If so, you need to keep reading.
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What Does a Trump Presidency Mean for Cyber Security?
In the wake of the recent presidential election in the United States, there are a lot of questions concerning how the next four years will look—for the United States as a nation and for the world. One aspect we at FixMeStick are interested in is cyber security.
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The Malware Hall of Fame: Code Red
In the summer of 2001, the US government and White House were hacked from an unknown source. A worm called “Code Red” was once claimed by the FBI to be so dangerous, it had the potential to bring down the entire Internet.…
Top 5 hackers in film
In honour of October being Cyber Awareness Month, we here at FixMeStick are going to count down the top seven best hackers in film! To celebrate the month, why not watch a few?…
The Malware Hall of Fame: Slammer Worm
Also named Sapphire Worm, the Slammer Worm was the fastest spreading worm in history. It spread in less than 10 minutes, infecting over 75, 000 PCs and greatly slowing or shutting down business. The worm caused $1.2 billion dollars in damage, but compared to the ILOVEYOU virus, it’s not so bad.…
Cyber Security: Is the government doing all it can to protect your information?
Cyber-security expert, Michael Hayden, recently shocked the world by announcing that following the U.S.A. Freedom Act Americans are “definitely not safer.” He argued that this policy change will make no significant difference to the safety and security of everyday people. The act, which striped the NSA of their right to collect bulk phone data, is merely the first of many steps required to create true online safety.
The Freedom Act was precipitated by the news that Chinese intelligence officials had stolen millions of personnel records from the Office of Personnel Management. People were astonished to learn that this kind of data theft was even possible.…
What is a hacker?
Hackers have been all over the news recently. But what is a hacker? Keep reading to learn they are and how hackers do what they do.…
No Ben Affleck in Anti-Virus
Ben Affleck produces outstanding heist movies: Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo (well, it’s a type of a heist…). We’re unlikely to ever see an online heist movie out of Affleck though. The same three factors that make Internet security so difficult are what make it so unexciting.
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The Hacker News : My Parents Need a FixMeStick
The principles underlying the FixMeStick are tried and true, and are no surprise to anyone in Internet security. The engineering challenge is to get the principles to work on a mass scale for non-technical consumers. What we’ve done with the FixMeStick is implemented these principles (separate clean device, multiple scanners, no dependency on untrusted code) on a consumer device that anyone can use.
We tend to get one of two responses from security and IT Pros that learn about the FixMeStick:
1 – I can build that myself for free using an ISO from an anti-virus company.
2 – I love it, a solution I can send to my friends and family that won’t come back on me.
The security guys are The Hacker News are in camp #2: The FixMeStick : My Parents Need This
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