Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel created malware that could infect a CT scanner and cause it to provide either false positive or false negative readings. The researchers took real CT lung scans and let their malware modify the scans. In the cases where the researchers created fake cancerous nodes, the radiologists who read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Brian Krebs reported that Indian mega-outsourcer Wipro was hacked. Apparently Wipro’s systems were being used to launch attacks against Wipro’s customers. Wipro’s PR police said that they are investigating. I am sure that they are. Given that Wipro’s customers likely trust Wipro, it is a good launchpad for attacks against their customers. When Brian (Krebs) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While some people say that you can’t prove that people have been harmed by lax cybersecurity practices, the laws are making it more expensive for companies to believe this. Fines in the hundreds of thousands, millions and even billions of dollars are happening. So whether companies believe cybersecurity is an issue or not, their wallets […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For many years hackers have been content destroy companys’ office networks and demand ransom if those companies wanted control of their systems back in order to do business. But that is not enough for the hackers. They want to shut down factories and due damage. There have been a couple of barriers to hackers being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oops – Office Depot Mimics Phone Phishers Thanks to reader Gina for this one. Office Depot got caught scamming its customers telling them they had (fake) malware on their computers when they asked OD and its vendor Support.com to scan their computers. No, they didn’t have malware – just a bill for unneeded services. While […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is old news that Jeff Bezos was caught cheating on his (soon to be ex-) wife. That isn’t terribly unique news. Powerful men seem to do that a lot. At this point it is still somewhat murky as to how AMI, parent of the National Enquirer, obtained pictures that Jeff shared with his girlfriend. […]
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