by HCS Technical Staff “What is a card skimmer?” Card skimmers are nasty little devices that are designed to surreptitiously steal information off your bank card or credit card by reading the magnetic strip when you conduct a transaction at either an ATM machine, a self-checkout lane at a store, gas pump, a DVD rental…
Category: Technology
Survival Computing: When “The Cloud” Goes Dark
By HCS Technical Staff When you imagine the archetypal Walking Dead/Katrina/Tornado type disaster scenario, we creatures of comfort may find the thought of our electronic gadgets and gizmos being rendered useless utterly terrifying. The truth of the matter is that hardware and software used to send, store, and receive information (“IT” or Information Technology) is…
Malware & Cyber Warfare
by HCS Technical Staff How is it done? Offensive computer attacks are usually conducted by exploiting flaws in a computer web interface (most often a “login screen”) or surreptitiously installing malicious software (“malware”) on targeted computers to produce a number of effects on the computer system or devices that it controls. How does it happen? In the broadest…
Using a Live CD Operating System
By: HCS Technical Staff (Author’s Note to the Reader: If there is any jargon that you do not know, please type the word into Wikipedia.) What if you could try a new operating system on your computer without having to wait an hour or two for the operating system to install and not erase everything…