Vera Bradley recently got a visit from the FBI, but it was not to purchase one of their colorful diaper bags. Instead the FBI came to tell Vera Bradley that they had been hacked. Between late July and late September, hackers were busy at work inside Vera Bradley’s 112 stores and 44 factory outlets – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are combining the Internet of Things with a 12 year old open source software bug and creating a potential mess. Last week tens of thousands of hacked Internet of (in-secure) Things devices created a 600 gigabit per second attack against a security blogger’s web site and just after that, these devices created a terabit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All 12 channels France’s TV5 Monde were taken off the air one night in April 2015. The company had just launched a new channel that day and were out celebrating when a flood of text messages told the director-general that all 12 stations had gone dark. Attackers, claimed to be from the Cyber Caliphate. Since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the Cloud has an amazing number of advantages, it is important to remember that it is hard to see inside a cloud and what you can’t see could hurt you. I was recently involved in responding to a potential email compromise where the company was using cloud based email. While this cloud based email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few months ago Apple and the FBI seemed to be locked in a fight to the death over a request to unlock a phone belonging to the now dead San Bernadino shooter. The FBi attempted to use the 18th century All Writs Act to get Apple to write new software that undermined the security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently, Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) was hit with a massive denial of service attack. The site went down – hard – and was down for days. His Internet Service Provider kicked him off, permanently. The attack threw over 600 gigabits per second of traffic at the site. There are very few web sites that could withstand […]
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