In what has to be one of the largest disclosures of personal data ever, it appears that a Republican National Committee vendor exposed their collection of data on 198 million U.S. voters in the cloud for anyone to trip over. Unlike other cases where hackers broke in or used zero day exploits to compromise systems, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Aptos, an outsource point of sale vendor for many businesses, announced that they were breached. Sort of announced, but not really. The breach was active from February 2016 thru November 2016, but they didn’t notify their merchants until February of this year. Now the vendors are slowly notifying their customers. Potentially, customers are not going […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What if the attack on the Kiev power station last Christmas which killed power to a goodly chunk for the city was just a dry run? For what? Security researchers at ESET and Dragos analyzed the malware used in the attack and say it represents a dangerous advancement in attacks on critical infrastructure. Like Stuxnet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has detailed an attack by an Asian hacking group that can evade the Windows (or likely any other OS) Firewall. That is because the attack operates at a level below the operating system. Microsoft has dubbed the group PLATINUM. The attack leverages a known flaw in the Intel Management Platform called Active Management […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Dick Cheney was Veep, stories kept popping up that the Secret Service had made sure that his pacemaker was not remotely controllable. Some people weren’t sure that it was a problem – not because they didn’t like Cheney, but because they didn’t think they were hackable. Well now we have a different story. Researchers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not unusual it is still worth reiterating. A web server at the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford hosted malware for months, undetected. The malware started by installing a web shell onto the web server. This shell was able to do a number of things including upload […]
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