As a follow on to last week’s posts on why patching is critical and the CERT alert on The Shadow Broker’s release of a whole raft of firewall hacks, this week Cisco is announcing that their software is vulnerable to attack, there is no workaround and they are working on patches. BUT, there is a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ClixSense, a company that pays users to look at ads and fill in surveys was hacked last week. The hackers dumped 2 million “samples” on Pastebin to advertise the sale and security researchers say that the data appears to be real. In total, there are over 6 million records “available”. Information that is in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Israeli researchers at Ben-Gurion University have come up with a model that says that hackers, for a modest amount of money, could disable the 911 service in a state, and, for a little more money, the entire United States. While you might think it would be hard to do that, it really is not. Many […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trend Micro surveyed 300 UK businesses and found some interesting information. Likely if they surveyed US businesses, the results would be similar. 44 percent of the businesses have been infected with ransomware. That is almost half. It doesn’t say how big the attack was, but given the FBI is saying that they are getting 4,000 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mailguard is reporting a new phishing scam that uses the old “here is an invoice for you to review” or “here is a purchase order for you to review”. A screenshot of one of the emails is shown below. In both cases, the malware takes advantage of a vulnerability in Word that has been patched, […]
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