As I have been saying for a while, hackers are good at evolving. As we see more and more ransomware attacks, a lot of the people are opting not to pay the ransom and instead deal with reconstructing their infrastructure and losing data (like police losing digital evidence and having to let crooks go). So […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well maybe not concerned enough to change their practices, but concerned. When asked if their data is more secure, less secure or about the same as compared to five years ago, 70 percent said their data was less secure. 6 percent said it was more secure. On the side of “gee, you mean I have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bugcrowd Paid Over $500,000 in Bug Bounties in Just One Week Bugcrowd, the crowd-sourced bug bounty management company, paid out over $500,000 in just one week for bugs that researchers found and paid out $1.6 million in October to over 550 hackers, representing 1,800 submissions. Of those, 327 were categorized as priority 1. These payouts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Magecart is a major (virtual) credit card skimming attack that has taken down the likes of British Airways and Ticket Master, among tens of thousands of other sites. It works by somehow inserting malicious software into the web server that grabs the customer’s credit card info as they enter it onto the web page. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hopefully by now, everyone has at least heard of multifactor authentication. But most people are not using it. Google says that about 10 percent of GMail customers use it. Based on our customer base, the adoption level for Office 365 users is higher, but not great. And the adoption for other software is horrible. To […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SmarterASP.net, a web hosting provider with over 400,000 customers, was infected by ransomware over the weekend. They are, at least, the third provider to be hit by such an attack. Affected user web sites are down and the company’s website was also down. Customers logging in might see a directory listing that looks like this […]
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