SECURITY BITS
TARGET
I'm sure everyone has heard, read, or seen news stories about the breach in Targets security where 40 million cards numbers and other information was hacked, right? Then late last week that number almost doubled to 70 million cards, and this morning I saw that the 2nd number was bumped up to over 100 million cards/people affected by this hack. Will it stop at the 3rd estimate? Time will tell.
ONLINE GAMING
Online gamers have grown into tremendous numbers, so it's not exactly a surprise to read a report from Kaspersky which said that over 11 million online gamer accounts were hacked in 2013. Expect that number to rise this year by almost double.
RANSOMEWARE
Until "Cryptolocker", ransomware was something that in most cases could be removed without affecting your data files, but now the ransomware game has changed and it will only get worse, which is why you should BACK UP your data files. Do it by external USB drives, or various online backup sources [I personally prefer Carbonite].
If you don't keep your data files [ed. - by data files I mean: Photos, music, documents, pdf's, spreadsheets, etc.] backed up daily [and Carbonite does it automatically for you several times a day], you'll have only yourself to blame when the PC technician tells you that your hard drive will have to be formatted with a fresh OS install, and "please have your backups ready to be restored to the freshly formatted hard drive."
'Nuff Said,
Brian
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