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About Darren Williams

Dr. Williams is a serial entrepreneur and founder of 3 technology startups over the last 20 years, two of which have been sold to public companies. He is currently the founder and CEO of BlackFog, Inc. a global cyber security company focusing on ransomware prevention and cyber warfare. Dr. Williams is responsible for strategic direction and leads global expansion for BlackFog and has pioneered anti data exfiltration technology for the prevention of cyber attacks across the globe. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. and Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Melbourne, authoring several scientific papers and software applications for auto-radiographic densitometry and analysis. He is a dual citizen of both Australia and the United States where he now resides.

A New Look at Cryptojacking: An Underreported Security Threat

With a significant increase in value of cryptocurrencies over the past year, 2021 is on pace to exceed 2018 as the “year of cryptojacking”. Cryptojacking experts are seeing steady upward momentum every year, along with new threats and risks.

2024-01-22T02:50:21+00:00April 6th, 2021|Cybersecurity|

Data Exfiltration Prevention and the Top 10 Cyberattacks of 2020

Looking back at the cyberattacks of 2020, selecting what we see as the top 10 was no easy task. Attacks were frequent, particularly when it came to ransomware, which rose seven-fold last year. We discuss how data exfiltration prevention could have stopped the top 10 cyberattacks of 2020.

2024-02-16T15:13:26+00:00January 20th, 2021|Data Exfiltration, Cybersecurity|

BlackFog Partners with Evolve Cybersecurity Insurance for Ransomware Protection

BlackFog partners with Evolve cybersecurity insurance specialist in the United States for cyberthreat protection and to mitigate the risks associated with ransomware.

2025-03-27T10:57:50+00:00January 11th, 2021|Cybersecurity, Press Release|

Windows 7 TLS 1.2 Support required patch

If you would like to support the most secure protocol running BlackFog and Windows 7 TLS it is important that your operating system is updated to support TLS 1.2, currently the most secure protocol. This is important for secure communication to the BlackFog servers. This patch from Microsoft will apply the necessary registry keys [...]

2021-09-27T20:08:32+01:00December 14th, 2020|