Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a crook and you want to break in, you might first try the front door. If you discover the front door is locked, you might try another door or a window. Same is true for hackers. As companies slowly improve their defenses on end user web sites, hackers discovered that the APIs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is what the connected world looks like and why car makers want 5G. It starts with hundreds of sensors, at least. But the data it collects? That data does not belong to you and the owner’s manual doesn’t say anything about it (which is legal in every state besides California). So what would you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The President is right that cellular security is a problem, but not for the reason that he thinks – although that is a problem too. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered a way to compromise 4G cellular security – the cell service that almost all of us use now. It allows them to impersonate the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was interviewed by the local affiliate of a national TV network earlier today about a hack where a young lady got her bank account emptied out in a matter of seconds after she provided a caller a single 6 digit number. Hopefully this lady will eventually get her money back, but not without a […]
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