Recently, Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) was hit with a massive denial of service attack. The site went down – hard – and was down for days. His Internet Service Provider kicked him off, permanently. The attack threw over 600 gigabits per second of traffic at the site. There are very few web sites that could withstand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way. After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer; it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian’s web site is not back with Akamai, but rather with Google’s Project Shield. Project Shield is an effort by Google to support free speech to journalists around the world. If they accept your web site, there is no cost. And Google probably has a fair amount of both bandwidth and brainpower to stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2013 a disgruntled Citibank employee decided to get even. Lennon Ray Brown, 38, who worked for Citi during 2012 and 2013 in the Dallas area, decided to teach the bank a lesson. On December 23, 2013, Brown sent a set of commands to 10 of the Citi global core routers. Those commands erased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the government entity that manages the privacy of health care information that you share with doctors and others, has issued new guidance on ransomware. While technically, it only applies to organizations that they regulate, in reality, almost everything they said applies equally to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IT World Canada ran an article the other day regarding the payment of ransom at the University of Calgary. The piece is almost an editorial as the writer beat the University up for paying the ransom. Here is the story that the article laid out. In June the University was infected with a “significant malware […]
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