Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is always rewarding when well respected people write published articles supporting an argument that you have been making for years. I guess I was just slightly ahead of my time. In this case, my point has been that law firms are a huge target for hackers – and not just the large law firms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has decided to lead the way on web, as it often has. In this case, Google has announced that as of January 1, 2017, web pages that transmit credit cards or ask for passwords over HTTP (vs. HTTPS) will be marked with this flag in the address bar: Some of will say that this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trend Micro surveyed 300 UK businesses and found some interesting information. Likely if they surveyed US businesses, the results would be similar. 44 percent of the businesses have been infected with ransomware. That is almost half. It doesn’t say how big the attack was, but given the FBI is saying that they are getting 4,000 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking, just like all other Internet businesses, is morphing to survive. And to be very clear, hacking is a business. Before people make funny jokes, no, hackers do NOT hack into porn sites for the pictures. They could use stolen credit cards if that was all they wanted. The porn site Brazzers was hacked, apparently […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this column is directed at lawyers, it applies equally well to anyone sending or receiving confidential communications via email and expecting those communications to actually be confidential. We think of business email compromise as one of those spear phishing emails that pretend to come from the boss telling you to wire money to China […]
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