The U.S. CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has released an alert describing the malware that took Sony apart pretty effectively. Without going into a lot of detail, here is the high level overview: The malware takes advantage of Windows SMB (server message block) protocols that are common to all versions of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Washington Technology, hackers have gone after Keypoint Systems, a contractor for The Office of Personnel Management that does background investigations for security clearances. If anyone has ever had a Department of Defense or other government security clearance, the information that you provide is extremely detailed. For example, for the DoD, the SF-86 form […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Minnesota judge has ruled that Target was negligent in the 2013 hack on their point of sale system according to infosecurity-magazine. Now while this is far from the last word on this issue and it will likely be appealed after the trials, it is important. For a judge to say that Target WAS NEGLIGENT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian Krebs, the security blogger that has broken a lot of breach stories was one of the journalists that received a letter from David Boies firm. Today he writes about it and other than the comment about hell freezing over first, he suggests, for the most part, Sony does not have much of a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg has been busy lately with cyber reporting. On December 10th, 2014, they reported that the attack on the Turkish BTC pipeline in 2008 was likely a cyber attack. The Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory caused a 1 megawatt generator to blow up to prove a point a couple of years before this, so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While The Sony hack/attack continues to capture the media’s attention with new data releases which create drama – who got caught saying what when – Bloomberg is reporting that something very similar to that happened to the Sands empire in February of this year. Some of you are familiar with Admiral Rogers testimony (head of […]
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