SPECIFIC WORRIES COULD EAT UP YOUR DAY (AND NIGHT)

SIMPLIFY BY JUST LUMPING THEM ALL TOGETHER AND WORRY ONCE A DAY

In the last two weeks we've been hearing about Russia and China's ability to hack systems in the US with relative ease. In a recent article on PC WORLD  the fingers are pointing towards Iran and North Korea, warning us not to forget about them. With the words like "Cyberwars" [at one time only found in discount gaming bins], one has to wonder what code of conduct for captured bytes will be written into the Geneva Convention.

When a system is hacked and 1's and 0's are taken captive, what organization is out there to protect their rights? Or digging deeper, do these bits and bytes have any rights once the security walls that protected them have been breached? Things such as these will keep legislation tied up for years as they try to negotiate a world-wide agreement on topics like "What constitutes torture in the digital war?"

Will captors be allowed to hang a byte over a keyboard key while a bag of sand at the other end of a pole that the byte is attached to slowly lets the sand seep out, dropping the poor byte closer and closer to the key marked DELETE - unless it breaks and gives up new information to penetrate the enemies defenses deeper?

SERIOUSLY...

Back on a more serious thread [ed. - not that the first part wasn't serious], McAfee has issued an alert regarding some new Malware that is attacking POS (Point-of-sale) systems (although, it makes you wonder why they didn't post any alerts about the fellow whose name in on their box...)

"...Dubbed vSkimmer, the Trojan-like malware is designed to infect Windows-based computers that have payment card readers attached to them..."

If you have POS systems in your company perhaps you should read the article, found HERE, while I turn control of your brain back to you and the area in your brain that......"Worries".

'Nuff Said,
Brian