By Eric Lieberman A Los Angeles college paid hackers $28,000 to remove infected software from its computer systems after cybercriminals took the school’s data hostage. The perpetrators infiltrated the servers of the Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) and issued ransomware–a type of infected software designed to take over a computer system and then block access for the…
Can you label someone a malicious spammer with impunity? By Aya Katz In recent news, Facebook reportedly blocked access to Wikileaks‘ new treasure trove of DNC emails and attachments that revealed corruption on behalf of the DNC. Concerned about unfair filtering of news, many cite this as another example of Facebook’s suppression of trending conservative topics. But the explanation…
Steve Ambrose The director of the National Security Agency and Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers said that in 2014, 91 percent of software vulnerabilities discovered by the NSA were publicly disclosed. He made the comments at the Reagan National Defense Forum Nov. 7, where a gathering of national security officials discussed the…