Don’t ever click links in email. Don’t ever click links in email.
Did I say that twice? Good, maybe now it will sink in. This article from the New York Times is about spearphishing, which are emails that are targeted directly at you or your organization and usually contain a link to a website that does bad things to your computer. These emails are much more convincing than those from the king in Africa who wants to give you his money, which now that I think about it, he never did, the rat.
Why hack me?
When we are doing post-breach cleanup for new clients, many of them ask us the question, “Our business is not that interesting, so why would anyone hack me?” They may be a restaurant chain who thinks the only items of value they have are recipes that aren’t very hard to reproduce, or they could be a nonprofit …
You mean we are running out of IP addresses on the Internet??? Yes, it’s true, sort of. IP addresses are used by computers to find each other on the Internet.
Each device has its own IP address (roughly, because some devices hide behind other devices such as a firewall, which uses its IP address for those devices).
We have been …