In addition to the traditional ransomware that everyone knows about, the AdultFriendFinder breach I wrote about earlier has the hackers blackmailing users of the site. Now, mSpy clients are being extorted too. Brian Krebs is reporting that hackers are using the mSpy breach to extort iPhone users. Apparently, users who have mSpy installed are asked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN and others have reported on the hacking of the adult dating site AdultFriendFinder, where members enter their interests in non-traditional sexual relationships. Over 3 million members “interests” and other information were revealed in the data released so far. According to the site, it has “helped millions of people find traditional partners, swinger groups, threesomes, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The DoJ IG just released an assessment of the FBI’s use of the mass data collection powers of section 215 of The Patriot Act, renewal of which is currently being debated in Congress and the report says that no case developments resulted from the use of Section 215 orders. The Inspector General said: “As with our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another software supply chain exploit. This time, Zytel and D-Link have confirmed that their routers have the bug, but researchers think products from Netgear, TP-Link, Trendnet and other vendors are vulnerable. Already 90 plus products from more than 20 vendors have been potentially identified as vulnerable. Only TP-Link has announced a patch. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, it was announced that Radio Shack was going to sell their customer information – over 100 million customers. Quickly, several camps came to the bankruptcy court to argue against the sale. First in line was AT&T (see article) and other carriers. AT&T claimed that, based on their agreement with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Following up on yesterday’s post on the time to detect hackers inside your systems, a new report today says that about half of the web sites of Retail and Healthcare businesses are always vulnerable, mostly because of slow remediation rates. WhiteHat Security’s report (see article) says that 47% of applications tested had cross site scripting […]
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