Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Retailer LightInTheBox Exposes 1.6 Billion Customer Records The challenge with today’s big data world is that the breaches are enormous. LightInTheBox left customer transaction data exposed due to, apparently, a server misconfiguration. They effectively breached themselves. The data was a web server log with dates from Aug 9 to Oct 11 of this year. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 2019 Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey said that the total number of organizations around the world paying the ransom after falling victim to a supply chain attack almost tripled from 14% to 39%. In the UK, the number of organizations that have experienced a ransomware attack and then paid the ransom doubled from 14% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Predictions are that there are going be billions of Internet of Things devices connected to the Internet over the next few years. This past week the story has been about Amazon’s Ring camera – an example of an Internet of Things device. In one case, in Tennessee, someone hacked into a family’s Ring cameras and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Visa published an alert that says that point of sale (PoS) system of North American Fuel Dispenser Merchants (as in gas stations and the folks that make the systems that allow you to “pay at the pump”) are being targeted in credit card skimming attacks. The attack is ongoing, increasing and coordinated – by cybercrime […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Text messages, as many people know are not very secure. If you are asking where we are meeting for lunch, you probably don’t care. But many banks use text messages (technically known as SMS or Short Message Service) as a second factor to enhance login security. While it does help some, it would be a […]
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