Montgomery County, Alabama joined the ranks of probably millions of others and paid a ransom to get their data back after hackers threatened to erase their data if the ransom was not paid within 7 days. While details are sketchy, reports are that the attack began Monday around 5PM (at the end of the day) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update to who may be affected. On October 10th, 2017, the Guardian is reporting that while Deloitte has only admitted that they have notified six clients, sources are saying that the server that was compromised contained emails for 350 clients, the US Departments of State, Energy, Homeland Security and Defense, The US Postal Service, The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All schools in Flathead County, Montana schools were closed on September 14 and 15 and all extracurricular activities and athletic events cancelled as a result of a ransom threat from the well known hacker(s) called The Dark Overlord. This was not a ransomware attack where the district’s data would have been encrypted, demanding a ransom […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Viacom is playing down the significance of this, but that could just be damage control. One of our favorite security researchers, Chris Vickery, discovered yet another Amazon S3 storage bucket unprotected on Amazon. In this case, it did not contain non-public personal information of customers, according to Viacom. They touted this as a good thing, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the MANY lessons to be learned from the Equifax breach is how not to handle a breach. Here is just one of those lessons and it is a lesson for BOTH users and webmasters. NOTE: TO SEE A BIGGER IMAGE OF ANY OF THE PICTURES IN THIS POST, JUST CLICK ONCE ON THE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently Equifax had another, separate breach in March of this year, 5 months before the breach that they have already announced. Equifax hired the security firm Mandiant to check into both breaches, but since they have not said anything about this first breach, we really don’t know much about it. One assumes that this secret […]
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