Albany Int’l Airport Hit By Ransomware via MSP In what is becoming an all too common story, the Managed Service Provider that supported Albany, NY’s airport, Logical Net of Schenectady, NY, was hacked and from there, the hackers were able to connect to the airports administrative network and infect it with REvil ransomware, the same […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starbucks Leaves Their API Key in a Public Github Repository Vulnerability hunter Vinoth Kumar found a Starbucks API key in a public Github repo. The flaw was set to CRITICAL after they verified that the key gave anyone access to their Jumpcloud (An AD alternative) directory. The problem was reported on October 17th and it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I hate to keep beating on this drum, but the message is important and the news keeps getting worse. Yesterday I wrote about yet another managed service provider that was hit by a ransomware attack and a number of their clients had their data encrypted. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Cloud […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of weeks ago it was a Managed Service Provider in Denver. A few weeks before that, it was one in Wisconsin. This week it is Irvine, CA based Synoptek with more than 1,100 customers including state and local governments, financial services and healthcare. Their web site says that they did more than $100 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Retailer LightInTheBox Exposes 1.6 Billion Customer Records The challenge with today’s big data world is that the breaches are enormous. LightInTheBox left customer transaction data exposed due to, apparently, a server misconfiguration. They effectively breached themselves. The data was a web server log with dates from Aug 9 to Oct 11 of this year. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple’s Ad Tracking Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market Two years ago Apple decided that since they don’t earn a lot of revenue from ads and Google, their competitor in the phone business, does, wouldn’t it be great to do something to hurt them. Oh, yeah, we can pretend the real reason we are doing it […]
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