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Colonial Pipeline paid close to $5 million in ransomware blackmail payment

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Effective

Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid the ransomware group responsible for a cyberattack last week close to $5 million to decrypt locked systems. On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that two people close to the matter Continue Reading →

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Cyberattack Forces a Shutdown of a Top U.S. Pipeline

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Effective

The operator, Colonial Pipeline, said it had halted systems for its 5,500 miles of pipeline after being hit by a ransomware attack. One of the nation’s largest pipelines, which carries refined Continue Reading →

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Traffic Lights are Easy to Hack

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Effective

Econolite’s traffic lights are used in 100,000 U.S. and Canadian intersections, although it’s unclear if all of those systems are susceptible to hacking. The problem extends beyond just Econolite — Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged encryption, hacked, NTCIP 1202, traffic light

‘Heartbleed’ Bug: What Can You Do?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Effective

You can run to update your password everywhere, but it won’t do any good on the sites that haven’t pushed out a fix yet. Companies including Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Tumblr Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Heartbleed, OpenSSL

Researchers Find SSL Problems in WhatsApp

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Effective

Security researchers at Praetorian, who have been running a project known as Project Neptune to assess the security of mobile apps, did a limited assessment of the iOS and Android Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Android, iOS, NSA, SSL

ef·fec·tive

/əˈfektiv/ - adjective
  1. successful in producing a desired or intended result.
    "effective solutions to environmental problems"
  2. fulfilling a specified function in fact, though not formally acknowledged as such.
    "the region did not come under effective Dutch control until 1904"

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