Recently, Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) was hit with a massive denial of service attack. The site went down – hard – and was down for days. His Internet Service Provider kicked him off, permanently. The attack threw over 600 gigabits per second of traffic at the site. There are very few web sites that could withstand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way. After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer; it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote about 21st Century Oncology in March (see post here) when the FBI came knocking on their door. The result? 2.2 million records compromised. At that time they said that they likely did not have enough insurance to cover the costs of the breach. Fast forward six months. Law360 is reporting that Charter Oak […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine has a great piece on social engineering/phishing scams. The article quotes both vendors that we resell – Wombat and KnowBe4. Bottom line – the Verizon 2016 data breach report says that 30 percent of the phishing emails were opened compared to 23 percent last year. 12 percent clicked on the link. If 12 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Leoni makes cables and wiring harnesses for cars, trucks, healthcare systems, appliances and many other products. They operate worldwide, are publicly traded, have 75,000 employees and in 2015 had sales of over 4 billion euros. You would think that a company like this would not fall for a business email compromise scam. But they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This week, Microsoft released it’s September patch dump. 14 security bulletins. 50 vulnerabilities in Windows. 26 more vulnerabilities in Flash player that was bundled with the Edge browser. The patches affect Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, OLE Automation, VB Scripting and Flash, among others. Other Microsoft products patched include Silverlight and Exchange server. The […]
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