As I wrote last week, LabCorp, the mega medical lab testing company (mega as in revenue around $10 billion last year) was breached and they have provided some interesting insights as they have been forced to detail to the SEC some of what happened last week when they had to shut down large parts of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have heard from two big name firms who succumbed to the recent Petya/NotPetya ransomware attack and they provide interesting insights into dealing with the attack. First a quick background. A week ago the world was coming to grips with a new ransomware attack. Initially called Petya because it looked like a strain of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: The Sun, not always the most reliable information source, is saying the outage and trickle down affected 300,000 passengers and may cost the airline $300+ million. The CEO, Alex Cruz, allegedly said, when warned earlier about the new system installed last fall, that it was the staff’s fault, not the system’s, that things were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Cisco; now it is Juniper and apparently there are a number of other vendors who will be affected by this flaw. While no one is saying who the vendor of the flawed hardware inside Cisco and Juniper products is, it is believed that it is Intel’s Atom C2000 chip. Intel has acknowledged […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, not exactly, but close. And it was not due to pictures of Kim Kardashian. Here is what happened. When you type in the name of a website to visit, say Facebook.com, the Internet needs to translate that name into an address. That address might look like 157.240.2.35 . The software that translates those names […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All 12 channels France’s TV5 Monde were taken off the air one night in April 2015. The company had just launched a new channel that day and were out celebrating when a flood of text messages told the director-general that all 12 stations had gone dark. Attackers, claimed to be from the Cyber Caliphate. Since […]
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