Sp23 CYBR 332-51 Computer Security blog

 As someone who does enjoy playing videogames and randomly checks in here and there about gaming news.  Its quite difficult to not hear any news Hogwarts Legacy.  As a new game, it normally has quite the high price tag which deters certain buyers from acquiring the game legitimately.  One of the means to illegitimately acquire the game is piracy.  Recently its been found that many have tried to obtain the game via piracy and unfortunately feel for a scam for adware.  After downloading what might seem to be a "legitimate" 7-zip file compression of the game, it will ask you for a password in which you must fill out a survey by giving out real information such as your name, phone number, or address.  If you do happen to give out that information, it just leads no where and you get nothing.  There was nothing all along.   Its important to know that you are bound to run into more sketchy and potentially face more risks if you decide play naug...

 Though you'd think in this day and age as we progress forward with technology how much importance is stressed into cybersecurity, Healthcare organizations are still victims to cyberthreats today.  Its recently been reported that U.S. and South Korea health care organizations were attacked by ransomware.  These attacks were successful due to the fact that they were able to abuse out of date applications, unpatched flaws within apps, or just bad password policies.  This is why enforcing strict cybersecurity policies is always stressed.  Of course you can't catch everything but its definitely better than losing trust and business operations like this. You can read up more on the attack reports here: "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-ransomware-attacks-on-healthcare-fund-govt-operations/?&web_view=true"