Politics being what it is, the FBI and DNC, a year after the attack on the DNC, are fighting over who did what and when. Since everyone in Washington has to cover their rear ends, this is not a particular surprise, especially after Comey’s “We are investigating Clinton again …. oh, false alarm” letters to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are creative if nothing else. A hacker going by the name of Harak1r1 is going around looking for unprotected Mongo databases. Mongo is a database used on many websites. The only problem is that on some of them, people do not protect the administrator account. What the hacker is doing is this. First the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Normally when hackers want to attack a router, they attempt to compromise the router directly. They try default passwords or a list of passwords; they look for software vulnerabilities. Maybe patches that haven’t been applied. Another approach is to compromise a device inside the network and use that device to compromise the router from the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When you ask a merchant to store your credit card information, you are trusting them to protect that information. While some web sites make it very difficult for you NOT to save your credit card information (Amazon being one), many web sites ask you if you want to save your credit card information. For sure, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last December, DHS started asking some foreign visitors for their social media account information. The request is ‘optional’. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Google+, Instagram and others are on a list where visitors are asked to enter their account names. Note that they are not being asked for their passwords. The Feds are trying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just after midnight on August 11th, Jered Kenna in Medellin, Columbia was notified that two of his email accounts had their passwords reset. He tried regaining control of the accounts by getting the services to send him a text, which he never received. When he called his phone company (T-Mobile), they said that he didn’t […]
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