Covid-19 Driven Online Shopping Encouraging More Skimming Attacks Since crooks go where the money is and since we are all doing a lot online shopping during the shelter in place directives, the crooks put two and two together to come up with an attack strategy. Malwarebytes says that they are seeing a 26% increase in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Once a new bug is publicly announced, it takes, on average, seven days for bad guys to figure out how to weaponize it. Experts say that this means that you need to harden your systems against that new attack within 72 hours. That is not very long, even for the best of operations. How long […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nutribullet, the company that makes those fancy blenders, has a problem. In general, the problem is not a lot different than a lot of other companies. Their website was hacked and one of the magecart family of credit card skimmers was installed. It turns out that was only the beginning of their problem. The first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Say 4 Chinese Hackers Took Down Equifax The Department of Justice indicted 4 members of the Chinese People Liberation Army, saying that they were responsible for detecting the fact that Equifax did not patch their some of their servers and thus were easily hackable. This, of course, means that the hack did not require […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a well known defense contractor in DC, was hit by a ransomware attack. The tagline on the homepage of their website says that they are enabling a more secure future. A Google search last week for the company brought up these results: The researcher who discovered the problem said it seems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Medical devices have never been subjected to much security testing – a fact that the FDA may argue with, but which is visibly accurate. This time it is GE’s CIC Pro, a workstation that hospital staff uses to manage multiple GE patient devices on a ward. They can use the device to monitor patients or […]
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