BlackCat Leaks Irish University’s Hacked Data I reported last week that Munster Technological University closed several of its campuses after a ransomware attack, which the university, apparently did not pay. The Irish High Court issued an injunction prohibiting the hackers from leaking the data and return any data that they had. They did “return” it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2022 security companies that track these attacks saw a rise in the number and sophistication of attacks on critical infrastructure. They also saw the introduction of a malware toolkit with plugins to attack tens of thousands of control systems across every industry. Responders discovered, not surprisingly, that the vast majority (more than 75%) of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The “Chocolate Factory”, as Google is sometimes called, is facing an existential threat. Between new privacy laws in the U.S. and other countries and the restrictions on cookies, especially third party cookies, the main mechanisms that Google uses to target ads to you and me, Google’s revenue, 90 percent of which comes from ads, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitch streamers are notorious for going after other streamers. Not sure how that started, but it is a thing. Two weeks ago, Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing (aka Atrioc) was doing a live stream for his 318,000 followers and, supposedly, inadvertently showed his open browser tabs showing that he visited a website selling deep fake porn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently there have been alerts where the number of people who received alerts was vastly larger than optimal. In one case here, instead of notifying a few hundred people, 750,000 people were alerted, including some who were more than 50 miles away from the target area. Some of these were due to system malfunctions/design limitations, […]
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