Just when I thought I had heard it all comes a new form of attack – called homographs. Homograph attacks in browsers can happen because browsers have to support internationalization – languages other than English. In this demo page below, it looks like the web site is an HTTPS Apple.com web page. Note: you can […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Occasionally, the good guys win. Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, son of a Russian Parliament member was sentenced to 27 years in jail after being convicted on 38 counts. The idiot made the mistake of vacationing in the Maldives, either thinking the FBI didn’t know who he was, wasn’t watching him or thinking he was special […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA and CIA can’t seem to keep their toys under wraps. Last week the Shadow Brokers released more NSA tools. The generally agreed upon theory is that the tools were developed by the NSA’s Equation Group, a hacking for hire contractor. What is less clear is how they got out. One possibility is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For some people, they never met an app that they didn’t like. And install. Well, here is the counterpoint to that concept. Bose is now being sued because, the lawsuit says, that the Bose app is collecting data and selling it. Maybe that might be expected if their headphones didn’t cost $300 or more. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last December Brian Krebs reported that banks said that there was a pattern of credit card fraud centered around the hotels of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, IHG. IHG owns Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Intercontinental, among many other brands. At the time, IHG said that it only affected a dozen hotels or so. IHG owns […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
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