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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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