Military prosecutors who are prosecuting a Navy SEAL for killing an Islamic State prisoner are now charged with bugging emails and documents that they sent to defense lawyers. The bugs, known in the trade as beacons, tell the person who installed it who has opened the document based on their IP address and also provides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Eight Americans and one Irishman have been charged with wire fraud for stealing people’s phone identities without ever having to go near your phone. In this case, the gang used the stolen phones to compromise the victim’s cryptocurrency wallets, among other things. This was possible because the victims used text messages as the second factor […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is never a good time for the information systems of one of the world’s largest hosted services providers to go down, but in this case, at least it wasn’t April 6th. One of the Dutch firm Wolters Kluwer’s big services is CCH, the online tax software that many accounting firms, large and small, use. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Wiping Github and Other Repos Hackers are attacking repositories of users on Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket, leaving a ransom note that says pay up if you want your software back. The ransom isn’t much – around $500, – which may cause people to pay up rather than trying to recover the data, which I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This time the attack is against an eCommerce platform, PrismWeb, that is used by College bookstores. The attack is similar to other attacks, in the the hackers somehow got into the company’s system and inserted a tiny bit of Javascript that steals credit card data – very similar to Magecart that is affecting sites from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One good thing about breach notification laws – we tend to find out more information about what actually happened. Last month Citrix announced that hackers broke into their network and stole documents – corporate secrets. They said they found out when the FBI came to tell them (that probably was not fun to admit). Security […]
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