While the Republicans and Democrats are arguing whether the Russians hacked the DNC and affected the outcome of the presidential election, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey, in an interview with CBS, spoke about a Russian hack which has mostly been rumors up until now. I think we can reasonably accept that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Some people are suggesting that you cancel your Yahoo account immediately. This is likely a really bad idea. If you cancel the account, someone else may be able to open an account with the same name. If they do, they will be able to send emails that appear to be from you and they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Emergency Response Team issued an alert regarding some Netgear Internet Routers that are susceptible to a vulnerability for which there is, apparently, no good fix. They called out two routers in particular, the R6400 and R7000, but while Netgear has been very quiet about it, they did post a security update on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ThyssenKrupp announced this week that they were targeted by cyber thieves. They said the attack was “massive”, but have not given any specifics of the attack. We seem to be seeing that a lot lately. Hey everyone, we’ve been hacked but we are not going to say what got taken. It is a bit strange. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, I will give you the punchline upfront. According to Tech Crunch, Robert Stephens, a tech industry veteran, put a WiFi connected security camera on the Internet and was hacked in …. 98 Seconds. In 98 seconds it is highly unlikely that you could even get logged in to the camera, never mind change […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting in mid November, someone, possibly Iran, wiped many computers at a number of Saudi government agencies, including the Saudi Civil Aviation Agency . A total of 6 agencies were attacked; 4 were compromised; 2 agencies repelled the attack. The attack was made to look identical to an attack attributed to Iran in 2012 where […]
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