For my blog post this week as I was doing research I found some more recent news that actually took place on Oct 21, 2020. According to nbcnews.com Washington post stated “A cybersecurity company says it has found a hacker selling personally identifying information of more than 200 million Americans, including the voter registration data of 186 million.” Trustwave, a global cybersecurity company has stated that as it was monitoring the dark web forums for threat information, it came across a hacker calling his/her self Greenmoon2019. No financial loss or damage has been reported as of yet nor was there any word on an arrest of any kind however Trustwave has stated “We are committed to finding and investigating fraud during this election. While we cannot comment on information we may or may not have received from the public, we want to assure the American people the FBI is closely coordinated with our federal, state, and local partners to safeguard our voting processes.”

The biggest lesson we have learned from this is that we almost are never truly secured online. Whether we like it or not technology will continue to expand and new threats will continue to appear. The best and only thing we can do to prevent ourselves from becoming victimized as much as we can are the basics; use a VPN, install antivirus, and educate ourselves on how to prevent ourselves from falling victim to these attacks. Some things are out of our hands but if we all do our part in protecting ourselves, cyber security won’t be an issue.