Here is an interesting combination of countries. Multi-billion dollar Taiwan based computer make Asus makes a wide range of computers sold worldwide. Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky, whom the White House says is a threat to national security and should be banned (which I basically think is mostly true), identified that hackers attacked Asus’s software update […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seems like Facebook can’t catch a break. Whether it is Cambridge Analytica or one of the many other scandals plaguing the company, it seems like the only news coverage they get is bad coverage. This time it is information that Facebook logged users’ passwords in plain text for anyone to read, stored those logs on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Commerce Department Wants Companies to Publish Ingredients of their Software The Commerce Department is trolling around the RSA conference trying to get companies to publish the ingredients in their software – the so called bill of materials that I have written about before – so that users can understand what libraries are being loaded. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As people use their mobile devices as what one friend used to call a “pocket super computer” as opposed to something where you dial 7 digits (remember that) and talk to someone, hackers have figured out that the new attack vector is your phone. In part, this is due to the fact that finally, after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adobe seems to have trouble catching a break sometimes, Today they released an emergency patch for a vulnerability in the Cold Fusion application that Adobe bought in 2005. The bug allows an attacker to bypass the file upload restrictions, allowing an attacker to upload a malicious executable and then get the target system to execute […]
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