UPDATE: Brian’s web site is not back with Akamai, but rather with Google’s Project Shield. Project Shield is an effort by Google to support free speech to journalists around the world. If they accept your web site, there is no cost. And Google probably has a fair amount of both bandwidth and brainpower to stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unless you have been totally disconnected for the last 24 hours, you are no doubt aware that Yahoo announced what may be the largest breach of accounts in history – 500 million accounts. Included in the hack were names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and security questions. They are saying, at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine has a great piece on social engineering/phishing scams. The article quotes both vendors that we resell – Wombat and KnowBe4. Bottom line – the Verizon 2016 data breach report says that 30 percent of the phishing emails were opened compared to 23 percent last year. 12 percent clicked on the link. If 12 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Leoni makes cables and wiring harnesses for cars, trucks, healthcare systems, appliances and many other products. They operate worldwide, are publicly traded, have 75,000 employees and in 2015 had sales of over 4 billion euros. You would think that a company like this would not fall for a business email compromise scam. But they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ITEM 1: As I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Appalachian Regional Healthcare was attacked with some form of malware, forcing them to shut down every single computer in every hospital that they run. Finally, after twenty days, the hospital chain says that things are back to normal. Appalachian says that they do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As a follow on to last week’s posts on why patching is critical and the CERT alert on The Shadow Broker’s release of a whole raft of firewall hacks, this week Cisco is announcing that their software is vulnerable to attack, there is no workaround and they are working on patches. BUT, there is a […]
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