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Security News For The Week Ending May 3, 2019

U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking.  The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]

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Citrix Fesses Up More Details About Their Breach

One good thing about breach notification laws – we tend to find out more information about what actually happened. Last month Citrix announced that hackers broke into their network and stole documents – corporate secrets.  They said they found out when the FBI came to tell them (that probably was not fun to admit).  Security […]

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Security News for the Week Ending April 26, 2019

As Terrorists Blow Up Soft Targets, Sri Lanka Turns Off Social Media As Sri Lanka is dealing with multiple bombs exploding at churches and hotels, the country’s solution to the inevitable use of social media to fan flames and release propaganda, in addition to news is to turn off social media. At the current time, […]

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IoT – It’s Only Getting Worse, Security Wise

With the government doing just about zero when it comes to protecting you from Internet of Things security hacks, this leaves the entire burden on you. A hacker broke into two different GPS tracker apps – he hacked about 7,000 iTrack accounts and 20,000 ProTrack accounts. In general hacking into someone’s web account might cost […]

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$1.3 Billion is a Lot of Money

The FBI says that reported losses due to Business EMail Compromise attacks reached a whopping $1.3 billion in 2018, double the losses reported in 2017. On the other hand, the number of ransomware complaints is down to levels reported in 2014. There were 20,373 Business EMail Attacks reported last year, compared to 15,690 in 2017.  […]

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