Merry Christmas! The hackers, of course, do not take Christmas off and are working hard to ruin yours. Today’s story is about a very active spam campaign that is disguised as Amazon order confirmations. The first stage of the campaign looks something like this with different subject lines: Notice that you have to click on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions. The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You can get anything on the Internet. One of the relatively recent additions are web sites that you can pay (I presume in Bitcoin) to “stress” a web site that you don’t like. Stress is a euphemism for denial of service attacks which force the target site offline. They have charged 3 men today – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Adobe’s December patch list fixed 87 separate bugs in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. 39 of these are rated critical. Last week they patched a critical zero day in Flash (Details here). More Spy Cams The other day I reported the the DEA was buying spy camera enclosures to hide inside of street […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rob Joyce, long time NSA cyber executive, former special assistant to the President for cybersecurity, cybersecurity coordinator for the National Security Council and all around cyber guru says that we are in trouble. He said that Chinese cyber attacks have increased in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure. He says that he is worried that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sextortion is malware that tries to convince you that the attacker has compromised your computer and has videos of you visiting adult web sites. The attackers promise not to share the videos with your friends if you pay them money. The videos do not exist, but scared people sometimes pay. The new variant of the […]
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