A 24 year old South Carolina mom, Jamie Summitt, got a rather rude lesson in cyber security. She purchased a “smart” baby monitor that she could watch from her equally smart phone, only to wake up one day to find the baby monitor pointed at her. She didn’t think much about that until she watched […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Paul Manafoft, President Trump’s former campaign manager, is in trouble with the Feds. Again. Federal prosecutors say that Manafort attempted to tamper with witnesses to make sure that their testimony coordinated with his. How the feds found out is that they got a warrant for his iCloud account. Whatsapp and Telegram messages backed up to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AgentRun is a startup that helps independent insurance agents and brokers manage customer relationships (CRM) and they are the latest company to do the perp walk for leaving an Amazon storage bucket unprotected. Compromised were thousands of client’s sensitive data files like insurance policy documents, health data, medical data, social security and medicare cards, blank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]RSA Security says that the number of fraudulent transactions originating from mobile devices is up 200% since 2015. In 2015 only 5% of fraudulent transactions originated from mobile; in 1st quarter 2018 it was 39%. The volume of fraudulent transactions overall is up 680% and up by 63% since 1st quarter 2017. On the other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While most of the general user base has never heard of DNS and of those that have, only a few of those understand how it works, that has not stopped the hackers from very effectively abusing it against everyone. Very simply, DNS maps the www.xyz.com names that people use in their browsers into the IP […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Does it Right Matt Green, the well known cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins said this about the encrypted messaging app Signal: “After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.” But even nice code isn’t perfect. Last Friday, researchers announced very serious bug in […]
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