UPDATE: A 25 year Los Angeles resident, Tyler Barriss, has been arrested by police. Barriss has served time in California for making threats. As a repeat offender and possibly being charged by both state and federal authorities, this idiot’s game is likely “game over” for the rest of his life. Swatting, the practice of calling in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]To be fair, this test was based on choosing PINs from among a list of 50 random PINs. The researchers collected a pool of data for 500 test PINs and used that along with the data collected from the test cases to guess the PIN used almost 100% of the time, on the first guess. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gene Kaspersky’s anti-virus software has been banned from being used by the Federal government mostly because an NSA software developer went “off the reservation”, took some classified software home and loaded it on a personally owned PC running Kaspersky’s AV software configured by the developer to share potentially malicious software with Kaspersky, thereby compromising an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers have discovered a problem with AD Connect in an Office 365 hybrid AD environment. In this situation, hybrid means both onsite Active Directory and cloud Active Directory. This is the environment that most Office 365 users who federate accounts use. The bug was discovered earlier this month by Preempt, a vendor of cyber security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the intelligence community to collect intelligence on non-Americans outside the United States without a warrant. As the intelligence community hoovers up huge quantities of data (they just built a new facility in Utah so that they could bring enough storage online to hold all the data), […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The creators of the Mirai botnet pleaded guilty earlier this month in an Anchorage courtroom. The Mirai botnet unleashed a distributed denial of service attack on the French cellular carrier OVH and another DDoS attack against DYN, the DNS provider for Amazon, Netflix and many other heavy duty web sites. The DDoS attacks took those […]
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