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, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week, I wrote about the Wipro hack (if you didn’t see that post, click on the search box and enter Wipro). While Wipro is being pretty close-mouthed about what happened due to the inevitable lawsuits, SLA complaints and even claims of breached contracts, it isn’t stopping the media from reporting on it. In fact, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Pulls Patches AGAIN After Some Computers Become Super Secure Users of Sophos and Avast, especially those running Windows 7 or Windows 8 – but not Windows 10 – got their computers bricked after this month’s update. Microsoft has had multiple update failures over the last 6 months, causing admins to wait a week or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel created malware that could infect a CT scanner and cause it to provide either false positive or false negative readings. The researchers took real CT lung scans and let their malware modify the scans. In the cases where the researchers created fake cancerous nodes, the radiologists who read […]
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