Earlier this week Merck said that the NotPetya is going to cost them and the numbers are staggering. In last Friday’s earnings call Merck said that NotPetya has impacted third quarter results to the tune of around $300 million. That includes $135 million in lost sales and $175 million in costs. But that is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Does your organization allow thumb drives? Do you use them at home? What do you store on them? What follows could be called nightmare on Main Street. A private citizen found a thumb drive (AKA flash drive or memory stick) and did what any smart cyber security aware person would do. He took it to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think that after the Panama Papers breach in which the law firm of Mossack Fonseca was hacked and 11 million documents exposed – including ones that forced the prime minister of Iceland to resign and the prime minister of Pakistan to be removed from office – that law firms around the world would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI released an alert this week about malware called CrySiS that attacks public facing servers that have RDP enabled. RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol is an old Microsoft protocol that was designed to allow IT people to remotely control a Windows machine (server or desktop) to perform maintenance. The protocol is old – it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what is an unusual move by the FBI and DHS, CERT released a security bulletin saying that attackers were going after government entities and critical infrastructure and had been doing so at least since May. They said this is a multi-stage attack, going after low security and small networks and then moving inside those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]John Biggs, a contributing writer for Tech Crunch described the details of a hacker’s attack on his online world. John detailed the entire hack and it is very useful for everyone. WHY he was attacked is not clear. Was it a target of opportunity or was he specifically being attack? It appears that it may […]
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