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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.

BlackFog appoints ITAMSoft as distributor for Netherlands

BlackFog is pleased to announce that it has partnered with ITAMSoft B.V. to act as a distributor of BlackFog Privacy, its Cyber Privacy solution throughout the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. With the increased awareness and regulatory environment in Europe it is more important than ever that businesses and individuals have the best cyber privacy protection available.

2024-01-22T02:51:08+00:00March 7th, 2016|Press Release|

BlackFog appoints Jeffrey Carmody of Agility Capital to board of Advisors

We are very pleased to have Jeff join the BlackFog team as it rapidly expands around the world. Jeff will provide a deep bench of experience from the capital and technology markets, which is crucial as it enters its hyper growth phase and scales out the business.

2024-01-22T02:51:09+00:00March 3rd, 2016|Privacy, Press Release|

BlackFog Privacy Improves Cyber Privacy and Data Security

Real-time cyber privacy protection dramatically improves performance and security of computers. Today BlackFog launched BlackFog Privacy, the first in a range of cyber privacy products designed to protect your online and offline privacy using real-time threat detection and blocking. Using a triage approach to data privacy, BlackFog Privacy is able to intercept, detect and respond to data profiling and collection requests before they happen and block any data leakage from your computer.

2024-01-22T02:51:09+00:00February 8th, 2016|Privacy, Press Release|

Windows 10 Privacy Lockdown Rules

Windows 10 privacy is a massive concern for everyone. Each day more of our rights are eroded as more applications continue to harvest our personal data. BlackFog Privacy includes hundreds of built-in rules to lockdown your computer and prevent spying activity. These rules are updated on a weekly basis so you can always stay on top of the latest spyware. These include invasive ads, malware, system services and spyware products.

2024-01-22T02:51:10+00:00January 20th, 2016|Privacy|

Privacy hacking and tracking of mobile phones exposed

A great segment from 60 minutes Australia on security and privacy hacking on the cell phone network around the world. This segment demonstrates how a simple radio antenna with parts costing around $100 can act as a mobile cellphone tower and intercept all communications. The technology is based upon IMSI Catching. If you want [...]

2024-01-22T02:51:11+00:00August 24th, 2015|Privacy|

Governments worked together to hack Kaspersky

As initially reported on The Intercept, GCHQ (the UK Governments equivalent of the NSA) and the NSA were able to hack Kaspersky Software's ant-virus software to track users and infiltrate networks. This information comes directly from documents released by Edward Snowden. The hacked software was then used to monitor email and web traffic to obtain intelligence. [...]

2024-05-17T13:13:04+01:00July 10th, 2015|Breach, Privacy|

Google Chrome Listening In via your Microphone

In yet another shameless story about breaching confidentiality, yesterday it was revealed that Google has been downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any [...]

2024-01-22T02:51:12+00:00June 26th, 2015|Privacy|

Spying Virus Hijacked Microphones and Cameras of Delegates

In another example of how your computer is being used for spying, this week it was revealed that a virus spread through a hotel network was able to infect the computers of guests which hijacked microphones and cameras. The Virus, which is embedded in the system kernel to avoid detection, is able to eavesdrop [...]

2024-01-22T02:51:12+00:00June 11th, 2015|Privacy|

1 in 4 Teens online almost constantly

A sobering message for parents from this latest research from Statista that shows how often teenagers are now online. With 80% of teens online almost constantly or often online we have to be vigilant on ways that we can keep them safe and well educated about how they use the Internet. [...]

2024-01-22T02:51:13+00:00May 7th, 2015|Online Safety, Privacy|

Appeals court rules NSA bulk phone data collection illegal

Interesting news from the Federal Court today has ruled that bulk phone data collection by the NSA is illegal. Congress now has until May 31 to decide what they will allow before the law expires. It should be an interesting 3 weeks ahead. For now the court will allow the program to continue temporarily until [...]

2024-01-22T02:51:14+00:00May 7th, 2015|Privacy|