HBO has joined the ranks of Sony and Netflix and has had their new, unreleased shows hacked and posted on the dark web. HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler sent an email to employees saying, in part, “there has been a cyber incident directed at the company”, which I assume, means that they were hacked. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the continuing saga of Vault 7 – the leaking of CIA hacking tools, Wikileaks made Mac, Linux and Unix users feel welcome. Instead of leaking Windows and Android malicious code, they leaked Mac, Linux and Unix tools instead. I guess they are equal opportunity leakers. In this case they just leaked the manuals so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And, I suspect, an attorney may be looking for a new job. About a week ago the New York Times disclosed that a former employee who was suing Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) received data that he had not asked for – 1.4 gigabytes of data, actually. Data on, he said, over 50,000 high net worth […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An undisclosed attack vector allowed a hacker to steal $8.4 million in Ethereum, a competitor to Bitcoin, during it’s “initial coin offering”. This is the fourth time this month Ethereum alone was attacked, not counting attacks on other cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Ethereum are two popular cryptocurrencies – that is, so called currencies based on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swedish government has become embroiled in a scandal after an IT outsourcing deal went horribly wrong. There was an old TV commercial that included the line “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”, implying that IBM was a safe bet. Not in this case. The Swedish Transport Agency decided to outsource it’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is one of those pretty strange stories. An Albuquerque man is in jail charged with beating and threatening his girlfriend and the prime witness is …. yes … an Amazon Echo. The suspect, Eduardo Barros, was arrested July 2nd after a standoff with Albuquerque SWAT police officers. The couple was house sitting for the […]
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