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Security News for the Week Ending March 8, 2024

Hacking and Stealing Your Car From the Outside Through Your Headlight Apparently this is real. Crooks can pop off the headlight trim on some cars and get access to the cables to your “smart” headlights. From there they have access to the data bus called the CAN bus and from there they can unlock and […]

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Another Law Firm Gets Security Religion – AFTER Hackers Stole 325,000 Customer’s Data

The Houser LLP law firm specializes in taking care of high-profile financial institutions. Last May they were hacked. Ten months later they are finally notifying those high profile customers. They eventually were forced to disclose the breach to the Maine AG (among others). They said files were encrypted (AKA ransomware) and data was stolen. Data […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 1, 2024

Five Eyes Agencies: SolarWinds Hackers Adopting New Tactics As businesses move to the cloud, hackers are adopting new techniques since Software as a Service providers are much better at patching than most companies are. Instead, the Russian hackers are stealing authentication tokens and using them to get access to the cloud, including creating new accounts […]

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They’re Baaaack! LockBit, That Is. And they are Ticked Off

The FBI touted just last week that they had taken down LockBit and replaced the servers with ones that offered free decryption keys and sunshine for all. It didn’t last long. The Russia-based hackers have reconstituted themselves and have new servers. It is true that the FBI and Europol and others did take down their […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 23, 2024

NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce to Retire After 34 Years Now that is a career in public service. Joyce was the Cyber Director at NSA since 2021 and was at the NSA during the days that it was affectionately called “No Such Agency” for its secretiveness. It comes at a time when cyber threats are […]

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AI, Quantum Computing and Crypto – Not a Good Mix

Sorry, this is going to be a bit convoluted, so try to stay with me. First we had encryption. Things were good. Encryption was based on mathematically hard problems and computers could not do the math, even in, potentially, a hundred thousand years. Then came Quantum computing. Or at least it is coming. Or maybe […]

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