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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While we focused during the election on possibly classified emails on Hillary Clinton’s mail server, in Europe they have their own version. Shodan, the IoT search engine turned up on an Internet connected disk drive that was not password protected. While Trump says that Clinton should be thrown in jail, in Europe they said it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: While the ticket kiosks are back online, the hacker is saying that if the Muni doesn’t fix security problems and pay the ransom by Friday that they are going to release the data that they have taken. Passengers entering the San Francisco Muni rail system were greeted by the message “You Hacked” on Friday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to remember history very well, so, I guess, we are doomed to repeat it. A Chinese company, ADUPS, makes a technology that a number of phone manufacturers buy and use. It allows the manufacturer to update the firmware in a phone or IoT device over the air (meaning, I assume, over the […]
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