There is a great piece on ZDNet today about a writer who’s phone number was stolen (not the phone, the number) using a SIM swap attack. In this case, the phone company was T-Mobile and all the hacker had to do is call them, given them a bit of the victim’s information (like secret stuff […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The message this administration has been delivering over the last two-three years is less regulation; less controls. So what, exactly, is the FTC doing? Are they going off the reservation or is there a plan here? My guess is that there is a plan. Last week the FTC whacked DealerBuilt, a service provider that provides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“Think of this – one man with total control of billions of people’s stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures…” So begins a fake video using technology and videos of Mark Zuckerberg saying completely different things (see here). It even has a CBS News logo on it. CBS asked Facebook to take it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Wannacry attack that basically took down the UK healthcare system and which CBS says will cost about $4 billion to mitigate? Well, a few medical experts with a bent towards hacking presented the results of a simulation they conducted regarding what would happen if local hospitals were hit by a coordinated malware attack. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I will start with the spoiler – it is not. Pentesters and hackers now have a new tool in their arsenal to defeat two factor authentication. The tool was just released at the security conference Hack-In-The-Box and is now available on Github. Hackers had to get creative in order to attack web sites that were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Acting budget director Russel Vought is seeking to delay the ban of Huawei for another two years (or for a total of four years after the ban was enacted). If they are a risk to national security, is it okay to compromise national security for two more years? […]
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