The security firm FireEye has said that they have moderate confidence that a campaign targeting hotels in Europe are the work of the Russian hacking group APT28. One way the attack works is to send a phishing email to hotel staff with an infected Word document with a name related to a hotel reservation form. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The European Union has passed a new privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation and it goes into effect in May of 2018. For companies that do not do business or have customers in Europe, this regulation may not effect you. However, if you have customers in Europe, even if you do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are some folks who say that open source software is much better than proprietary (commercial) software because you can look at the source code. Ignoring whether you are I would know what we are looking at, it isn’t so simple as this story will tell. On the other hand, proprietary (commercial) software isn’t a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When you log on to a “secure” web site – one that that you access via HTTPS:// instead of HTTP:// , you do that because the web site bought a certificate from a certificate authority. Those certificates work because the browsers – all of them – “trust” the makers of those certificates. How do those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers wanted to know if self driving cars could be fooled and how hard it would be. For those of you who don’t want the read the rest of the article, the answer to the first question is yes and the answer to the second question is not very hard. Here are the test signs. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this year, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York was hit with a ransomware attack. ECMC is a level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and regional center for a variety of medical services – including, unfortunately, ransomware. At 2 A.M. on Palm Sunday computer screens across the medical center flashed “What happened […]
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