Following in the tradition of the Ruskies with the DNC, DNCC and Clinton campaign hacks, hackers in the Middle East are using a phishing technique dubbed Moonlight to catch unsuspecting users with phishing emails. What is interesting is that the tech involved is “off-the-shelf”. What they have spent time working on is the phishing emails […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Denial of Service attacks are a big deal now. Last week the attack against Dyn stopped people from accessing Twitter and hundreds of other busy web sites for hours. These attacks, called denial of service or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have many computers send a lot of data at a web server until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, that subject, while true, was really just to catch your attention. Here is the rest of the story (and sorry, this is a bit of a rant). Google has a team that researches security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software. The team, founded in 2014, is called Project Zero. While I am sure it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think after all the stories about data breaches that companies would not be asking you for your personal information via email. As long as people will do it, companies will ask. After all, it is easy and when easy fights with secure, easy almost always wins. In the source article for this post […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, not exactly, but close. And it was not due to pictures of Kim Kardashian. Here is what happened. When you type in the name of a website to visit, say Facebook.com, the Internet needs to translate that name into an address. That address might look like 157.240.2.35 . The software that translates those names […]
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