UPDATE: The article says that the 1.35 terabit attack is the largest on record. Well it was. For FOUR days. Using the same technique another U.S. based but unnamed service provider was hit with a 1.7 terabit per second attack a few days after the Github attack. Denial of Service attacks (called DoS or DDoS) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What happens if you are a restaurant and your cash register system gets hit by a virus? Short Answer: You close the doors and turn off the lights. That is exactly what happened hundreds of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada. Apparently Tim Hortons is something like a Dunkin Donuts serving coffee, donuts and some light […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NBC is reporting that the Intelligence Community developed substantial evidence that Russian financed attackers compromised the voter registration systems or web sites of seven states to different degrees. Up until this time DHS has been completely mum about this, saying absolutely nothing. But now NBC is reporting that the seven states are Alaska, Arizona, California, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why do people usually use a VPN connection over the Internet? Usually it is for added security and privacy. What if a VPN offered security, but even less privacy than without it – would you use it? Well some people are and probably do not even know it. In 2013 Facebook bought an Israeli company, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote about the CLOUD Act last week, I expected this to happen; I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. The CLOUD Act (see post) is an attempt by Congress to make it easier for U.S. law enforcement to force companies to respond to subpoenas for data when the data is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For at least 8 years the government has known that the border entry system has a hole large enough to drive a terrorist through, to abuse a phrase, and has not done anything about it. While the government was twisting the arms of other countries to put chips in their passports – and about a […]
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