The White House last month released a document called the National Strategy to Secure 5G. This SIX PAGE document is a little light on details, but like your 10 year old who is assigned homework, the Secure 5G and Beyond Act requires the President to turn in his homework and he did. So what would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Federal Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued its long awaited report last week and warned of a “catastrophic attack that leaves the nation in tatters”. While right now everyone is worried about Covid-19, this represents a longer term problem that won’t be fixed in a few months. The report creates a vivid hypothetical attack and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI has been tipped to a hack of around 130,000 Asus routers, details of which are available on the dark web – for sale. To incentivize the sale, the crook has scored each router as to how useful it might be to launch attacks. Access to these devices is being sold for as little […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a crook and you want to break in, you might first try the front door. If you discover the front door is locked, you might try another door or a window. Same is true for hackers. As companies slowly improve their defenses on end user web sites, hackers discovered that the APIs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The President is right that cellular security is a problem, but not for the reason that he thinks – although that is a problem too. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered a way to compromise 4G cellular security – the cell service that almost all of us use now. It allows them to impersonate the […]
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