Companies like Microsoft, Lenovo, GE, Nintendo and many others have created publicly visible repositories on places like Github. Some of these buckets are empty and some may legitimately be intended to be public. But those that contain access credentials – userids, passwords and API keys – likely are NOT intended to be public. Some of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if ransomware wasn’t bad enough in the past. As if ransomware 2.0 didn’t make you lose sleep. If you thought that the pandemic was slowing down cyberattacks. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. We are seeing new ransomware strains pop up at an alarming rate. In just the past couple of months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is not a comforting thought. Cybernews is reporting that using an Internet of Things search engine (like Shodan, but they don’t say which), they were able to scan big swaths of the Internet. In their case they were looking for exposed IoT systems. Not just any IoT, but critical infrastructure IoT. Here is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So you thought only companies like Microsoft and Google had terms of service. Apparently that is not the case. I keep talking about the horror that ransomware 2.0 is with hackers stealing the data before they encrypt it and threatening to publish the data if you don’t pay. That means backups alone are not sufficient […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an interesting story and interesting warning. The good news is that it is manageable and the exposure is low, but as the Internet of Things continues its march to take over the world, the problem is only going to get worse. Here is today’s story. A guy in the UK woke up one […]
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