4Chan Cesspool is Back Online 4Chan, the cesspool of a website that spews all sorts of hate and garbage, is back. Unfortunately. They have described what happened, loosely. Bottom line was that they were not maintaining their systems and, as a result, they were hacked. Their data and source code was hacked and the rest […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, I am not sure that anyone in DC is actually fiddling, but they certainly are not doing much to solve the problem. A panel of policymakers at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week were very clear on the threat. Salt Typhoon, a China-backed threat group, is particularly scary, having demonstrated uncanny skill in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of us in the industry this is not a surprise, but to others it may be. That title used to belong to Russia, but not any more. Russia is busy with a war and while it still is good at launching ransomware attacks, otherwise, it is more than a bit distracted. China, on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably this does not come as a surprise. Unfortunately. Researchers analyzed a half million apps and here is what they found. One in five (20%) have hard coded the encryption keys that protect your data, so that anyone who has the app can look at your data. One in six use software libraries that have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]More Countries Issue Travel Advisories for Travel to US The White House is trying to spin growing international concerns over travel to the U.S. in response to U.S. immigration and transgender rights policies, among other issues. Countries updating their advisories include New Zealand, Germany and the U.K, citing concerns over terrorism, civil unrest and stricter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I always say, the reason we have so much cybercrime is that it really pays. Here is the “elevator pitch” version. Remember, this only represents the people who reported the crimes to the FBI. That means that this number is dramatically low. And, while the number of complaints reported year over year is up […]
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