After the WannaCry Ransomware affected businesses in 150 countries last month, you would think that people would have learned. Apparently not. The Petya ransomware doesn’t encrypt files, it encrypts the whole disk. Unlike typical ransomware that picks selected files (like Word or Excel files), instead this ransomware replaces the Master Boot Record or MBR and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week the German Parliament passed a law that allows hack your computer or phone when investigating anything from murder to betting fraud and many other crimes. How would this work? It would allow police to covertly install software on your computer or phone that allows police to siphon data off your phone. Whether that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may recall that a hacking group called the Dark Overlord hacked into Larson Studios, a third party provider to Netflix and other studios. They stole the unreleased copies of the whole season of Orange as well as about 36 other series and movies. Now we are beginning to hear the back story and it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The universe is an interesting place. While the Senate and House, among others, are trying to figure out how much damage Russia did during last year’s election cycle, Cisco and others are sharing their source code with the people who supposedly hacked us. Seem strange? It is! Here is the story. For some countries, including […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anthem Blue Cross, you likely remember, was one of the first “Blues” to admit that they had lost control of the data on their subscribers to the tune of around 79 million people. After Anthem admitted that, a number of other insurance companies – both Blues and others – admitted that they, too, had been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been standing on my IoT soapbox for a while, saying that IoT is dangerous and people don’t know it. As a result, people aren’t doing anything about it. Well, today I received a dose of reality. We recently completed a vulnerability scan for a client of ours and one of the findings was […]
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