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Aggressive Ransomware campaign was recently released

A particularly aggressive Ransomware campaign was recently released.  It was observed and mention by several Companies around the world, their IT departments had notified that more than 120,000 E-Mails were sent daily over the last weeks. Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts files and demands payment for the decryption key. In the latest strain: The spam subject is an empty, “Fw:”, with a zip file attachment named: xls_convert_recipientname_randomnumber.zip. The body of the message indicates that the attachment contains requested invoices in Excel file format. The other campaign was sent with subject “Profile” containing a similar zip file attachment. The name of that attached file is: recipientname_profile_randomnumber.zip. As always, we suggest … [Read more...]

Latin America’s Top 50 Brands

Analyzing the 50 most valuable brands in Latin America is not an easy task. Last week Millward Brown and MPP just did that, released their fourth annual Brand in Latin America,  they analyzed the region's six top economies: Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina (PDF Doc Report). The 83 pages reports includes a extend breakout of the top 50 brands by country, even do there is been a despite slow economic growth in Latin America, they rise a 2% y/y/y. Some of the highlights include; Mexico, 17 top 50 brands, $49.4 billion value, +15% y/o/y Brazil, 11 top 50 brands, $32 billion value, +5% y/o/y Chile, 7 top 50 brands, $19.4 billion value, -23% y/o/y Colombia, 9 top 50 brands, $19.3 billion value, -4% y/o/y Peru, 4 top 50 brands, $6.1 billion value, +15% … [Read more...]

Fishing Day in Florida.

                                  Dear Friend, Having given your wonderful wife’s comments some considerable thought, I would like to point out one thing. ·         All snook the target of our fishing endeavours, are born male, after they grow to a length of over 30 inches, they transform into females. Only one other species achieves this change, the grouper. ·         Thus, once the fish survives being a male, if it is clever and lucky it becomes a woman. ·         By a miracle of evolution men are born men, women are born women. Being cleverer and more superior, women never get to experience the true joy of being a stupid … [Read more...]

Desde el otro lado de la frontera. – Violencia nuevamente en Guerrero, México.

Después de ver varias imágenes violentas en ACAPULCO el día de ayer, las cuales muestro bajo este párrafo, decidí finalmente a escribir. No son las primeras fotos espeluznantes que veo de la violencia que se vive en México, desde el Sexenio del Presidente Calderón, aparecían en periódicos nacionales e internacionales, fotos de cuerpos inertes colgados en los puentes sobre vías públicas- ahora las últimas, son en Guerrero. Estado que lleva meses padeciendo violencia y estudiantes desaparecidos. #Acapulco Mexicans protesting for change faced against police brutality. This is happening now, where's the coverage? pic.twitter.com/Jrzwr23FWW — QUEEN (@BlvckConscious) February 25, 2015 Las noticias mostraban que desde temprana hora, una marcha de “maestros” se … [Read more...]

Fallece el periodista Mexicano, Julio Scherer García.

  Julio Scherer nació el 7 de abril de 1926 en la Ciudad de México falleció el día de ayer en la Ciudad de México, a sus 88 años de edad. De 1968 a 1976 el Excélsior estuvo bajo la dirección de Scherer, época en que este diario fue considerado uno de los mejores del país. La asamblea de la cooperativa Excélsior el 8 de julio de 1976 votó por la expulsión de Scherer, quien salió acompañado por otros periodistas y fundan la Revista El Proceso. Sera recordado no solo por sus múltiples libros o premios recibidos, será reconocido como uno de los pioneros de la prensa libre de México. ------- Julio Scherer was born on April 7, 1926 in Mexico City, he died yesterday in Mexico City at 88 years old. From 1968-1976 Excelsior was under the direction of … [Read more...]