Hackers Wiping Github and Other Repos Hackers are attacking repositories of users on Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket, leaving a ransom note that says pay up if you want your software back. The ransom isn’t much – around $500, – which may cause people to pay up rather than trying to recover the data, which I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This time the attack is against an eCommerce platform, PrismWeb, that is used by College bookstores. The attack is similar to other attacks, in the the hackers somehow got into the company’s system and inserted a tiny bit of Javascript that steals credit card data – very similar to Magecart that is affecting sites from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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