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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Marriott. The breach of Marriott’s Starwood division systems exposed data on 500 million clients and triggered multiple lawsuits and investigations. That breach was four years in the making and across two different management teams – first at Starwood and then at Marriott. Undetected. This week 1-800-Flowers announced that it too was breached. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The stats say that 75% of all bits on the Internet are for video and that is a number that is up from 63% two years ago. Cisco says that Internet traffic will reach 396 exabytes a month by 2022. That is 396,000,000,000,000,000,000 . Which is a big number. While regular video for, say, Netflix, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stefano Gabbana is known for very edgy ads and posts on social media. Some people say over the edge – way over the edge. The brand ran a series of commercials of Chinese people eating pizza and other Italian foods with chopsticks on the eve of a star-studded fashion show in Hong Kong. I suspect […]
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