Dark Reading is reporting that due to the success of Ransomware, the sophistication of the attacks is growing. As a reminder, ransomware infects a computer and encrypts the files on it. If you pay the ransom, the attacker will usually give you the key to decrypt your files. Ransonware is not very particular and can […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a name that strikes fear into the hear of Facebook. He is an Austrian law student and privacy activist (see here and here). He sued Facebook saying that they violated European privacy laws and that the safe harbor that the EU gave US companies for protecting EU residents information is a sham and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the issues with Apple Pay security problems (see post), I didn’t really understand the scope of what I was writing about. Thanks to Brian Krebs (see his post), I now understand the problem is bigger than I thought. Let’s assume that you are a crook and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting a tax scam which, while quite old, is apparently still way too effective. The IRS is reporting that they are getting complaints at the rate of 10,000 to 12,000 new complaints a week. The scam goes like this. Someone calls you with a Washington, DC phone number and says you are under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dark Reading reported on Verizon’s PCI compliance assessment and I think the numbers are interesting, but not terribly unexpected (see article). The actual report, all 84 pages, is available here. Most of the time (maybe always), when a business has an assessment done by a third party assessor, that company will do an interim assessment […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trend Micro has identified a new piece of malware (see article) that attempts to connect to your home router using default userids and passwords for a number of home router vendors. It tries userids like admin, guest, root and user and passwords like admin, password and 12345678. The malware, named VICEPASS, scans for devices and […]
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