In addition to the traditional ransomware that everyone knows about, the AdultFriendFinder breach I wrote about earlier has the hackers blackmailing users of the site. Now, mSpy clients are being extorted too. Brian Krebs is reporting that hackers are using the mSpy breach to extort iPhone users. Apparently, users who have mSpy installed are asked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN and others have reported on the hacking of the adult dating site AdultFriendFinder, where members enter their interests in non-traditional sexual relationships. Over 3 million members “interests” and other information were revealed in the data released so far. According to the site, it has “helped millions of people find traditional partners, swinger groups, threesomes, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Larry Ponemon just released a study that shows that the dwell time – the time between the attacker getting in and the business detecting it is 100-200 days depending on the industry. Many of the respondents said that they are not optimistic about improving this in the next year. Given that, incident response is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USIS, a firm that used to do background checks for the U.S. Government was hacked in 2013. They did not provide many details of what happened, but the government cancelled $2.5 Billion in contracts and they laid off 2,500 employees. It also pushed the parent company dangerously close to default on $2 Billion in loans […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Brian Krebs reported that the company mSpy was hacked. mSpy builds a software product that runs in the cloud and allows parents to spy on their kids and adults to spy on their (cheating) significant others. That data is stored in the cloud, and now, hundreds of gigs of their customer’s photos, appointments, corporate emails […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are not a lot of details, but Network World is reporting that the Penn State College Of Engineering took their Internet connection “off the hook”. Last November Penn State got a visit from the FBI – that visit that everyone hopes that they will never get. Penn State was the victim of two cyber […]
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