Courts have been pretty divided as to whether people can be forced to unlock their phones or computers and whether unlocking your phone can be considered forcing you to incriminate you in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At this point, the general theory is that if your device is locked with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Montgomery County, Alabama joined the ranks of probably millions of others and paid a ransom to get their data back after hackers threatened to erase their data if the ransom was not paid within 7 days. While details are sketchy, reports are that the attack began Monday around 5PM (at the end of the day) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signalling System 7 or SS7 is the communication system that telephone carriers, both cellular and land line, use behind the scenes to route calls. Originally developed in 1975 – way before the Internet was popular – SS7 has virtually no security in it. It counts on securing the connections between telephone company switches, which, in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCleaner is a very popular disk utility that allows a user to securely erase certain content from their hard drives – like deleted files and cookies, among many other things. Coming in both a free and paid version, CCleaner has been used safely by users for years. Last month, however, hackers managed to inject malware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update to who may be affected. On October 10th, 2017, the Guardian is reporting that while Deloitte has only admitted that they have notified six clients, sources are saying that the server that was compromised contained emails for 350 clients, the US Departments of State, Energy, Homeland Security and Defense, The US Postal Service, The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All schools in Flathead County, Montana schools were closed on September 14 and 15 and all extracurricular activities and athletic events cancelled as a result of a ransom threat from the well known hacker(s) called The Dark Overlord. This was not a ransomware attack where the district’s data would have been encrypted, demanding a ransom […]
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