Politics being what it is, the FBI and DNC, a year after the attack on the DNC, are fighting over who did what and when. Since everyone in Washington has to cover their rear ends, this is not a particular surprise, especially after Comey’s “We are investigating Clinton again …. oh, false alarm” letters to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are creative if nothing else. A hacker going by the name of Harak1r1 is going around looking for unprotected Mongo databases. Mongo is a database used on many websites. The only problem is that on some of them, people do not protect the administrator account. What the hacker is doing is this. First the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When you ask a merchant to store your credit card information, you are trusting them to protect that information. While some web sites make it very difficult for you NOT to save your credit card information (Amazon being one), many web sites ask you if you want to save your credit card information. For sure, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just after midnight on August 11th, Jered Kenna in Medellin, Columbia was notified that two of his email accounts had their passwords reset. He tried regaining control of the accounts by getting the services to send him a text, which he never received. When he called his phone company (T-Mobile), they said that he didn’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you may be aware that earlier this year the FBI outed two major New York based law firms – Cravath, Swaine & Moore (500 attorneys) and Weil, Gotshal & Manges (1,000 attorneys) – as being hacked. But they did not give a lot of details. Now some of the details are coming out, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]L.A. County was recently phished. This is really no different than you or your company being phished other than the fact that the damage could be a bit worse. In the case of Los Angeles County, In May 2016 one thousand employees were phished. Apparently, over 100 employees thought the phishing emails were legit and gave the […]
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