There is a great piece on ZDNet today about a writer who’s phone number was stolen (not the phone, the number) using a SIM swap attack. In this case, the phone company was T-Mobile and all the hacker had to do is call them, given them a bit of the victim’s information (like secret stuff […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“Think of this – one man with total control of billions of people’s stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures…” So begins a fake video using technology and videos of Mark Zuckerberg saying completely different things (see here). It even has a CBS News logo on it. CBS asked Facebook to take it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SandboxEscaper Releases Yet Another Windows Zero-Day SandboxEscaper has it in for Microsoft. He or she has released over a half dozen zero-days including four of them just a couple of weeks ago. He or she has put Microsoft behind the power curve multiple times and now he or she is doing it again. This time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Wannacry attack that basically took down the UK healthcare system and which CBS says will cost about $4 billion to mitigate? Well, a few medical experts with a bent towards hacking presented the results of a simulation they conducted regarding what would happen if local hospitals were hit by a coordinated malware attack. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]More Information on the Baltimore Cyberattack Baltimore estimates that it will wind up spending $18 million to recover from the cyberattack – which is why many organization just pay the ransom. The attackers only wanted $103,000 or less than 1 percent of what they are going to spend. Of course, if an organization does that, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Privacy Act was introduced last month. Like California’s CCPA, it gives consumers more power over their data, but in addition to that, it would require companies to put their customer’s privacy before their own interests. I am sure that there will be a huge lobbying effort by special interests. While the sponsor is still […]
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