The St. Louis Public Library system was hit with a ransomware attack last week. All 17 branches; around 700 systems. The attackers asked for $35,000 to decrypt the 700 computers that were infected – translating to around $50 a computer. However the library told them to pound sand – or something like that, possibly, something […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When cyber criminals steal credit cards or buy stolen credit cards, they are buying somewhat of an unknown. Small time crooks test small numbers of cards by trying to use them at self service gas pumps in the middle of the night, but that doesn’t scale up and you run the risk of getting caught. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A new piece of Apple Mac malware was discovered recently but may have been running around the Mac universe for two years. The malware dubbed Fruitfly by Apple, is apparently a pretty simplistic piece of code. It can capture webcam images , screenshots, information about every device on the network and then tries to connect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About four months, a security firm named Medsec discovered some flaws in St Jude Medical’s cardiac implantable products. The accepted way to deal with this is to privately let the manufacturer know what you found, let them fix it and then release your research. In this case, Medsec had been told that St. Jude would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]MongoDB, the free and open source NoSQL database (see Wikipedia entry here) that is used by hundreds of thousands of web sites is under attack. A number of attackers are using search engines like Shodan to find Mongo databases that are exposed to the Internet and attempting to compromise them. Apparently, a surprising number of […]
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