Well, we certainly DO live in interesting times. The UK is supposed to leave the EU at the end of March, but no one knows if they will, if there will be a deal, if they will delay Brexit, if they will have another vote. The European Data Protection Supervisor says do not expect anything […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just ONE day after the announcement of the NINETEEN YEAR OLD bug in the very popular WinRAR utility, Checkpoint Software found examples of it being exploited in the wild. Given that the vast majority of the 500 million copies will likely NEVER be patched and the fact that the bug allows the hacker to take […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many employees are at least curious about their next job. That is the basis for this attack. The attacker sends Linkedin direct messages from a legitimate Linkedin account. If that doesn’t appeal to the target, the attacker sends emails to the targets business email address suggesting a job offer. The links in the email points […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over 5 Billion Records Exposed in 2018 Risk Based Security is reporting that there were 6,515 publicly reported breaches in 2018 exposing over 5 billion records. This is a couple hundred breaches less than 2017, but the final numbers are not in yet as breaches continue to be reported. The number of days between discovery […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a while back about hackers that had compromised a law firm and its customer Hiscox insurance – or said differently Hiscox and its vendor. The law firm was handling claims related to 9/11 (almost 20 years later and still litigating!). A lot of law firms (certainly not all) have not figured out that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stanford University is considered is fairly good college. They have some well known grads such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google founders), Herbert Hoover, Peter Thiel (Paypal founder), John Steinbeck and Sandra Day O’Connor. But apparently when it comes to software, they, themselves, are not so good. A little over a year ago they […]
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