The hotel Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, a 4 star hotel in the Austrian Alps, decided to pay a ransom of 1,500 Euros in bitcoin after hackers broke into the hotel’s systems and locked all the guests out of their rooms. Kind of a downside of the Internet of Things. If you can unlock your hotel room […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Israeli company Cellebrite, known for building hardware and software to extract data from most cell phones, was itself hacked. Earlier this week a hacker gave Motherboard 900 gigabytes of data from Cellebrite. We do not know if this is all they have or merely the beginning of a long trickle. Motherboard says that there […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]MongoDB, the free and open source NoSQL database (see Wikipedia entry here) that is used by hundreds of thousands of web sites is under attack. A number of attackers are using search engines like Shodan to find Mongo databases that are exposed to the Internet and attempting to compromise them. Apparently, a surprising number of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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, […]
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