Scoular Company, a $6 Billion, 800 employee commodities trading company got bilked out of a little more that $17 million in a modified spear phishing attack. Simply put, the attacker generated emails over time last summer to the company’s CFO that looked like they came from the company’s CEO and their Auditor that instructed the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, that is basically the summary of a Network World Article on the subject. In a high end car there are hundreds of computers and millions of lines of software. Gone are the days when you car was a big hunk of machined metal. Now your car is a super computer network on wheels. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is being reported by several sources (see here) that iPhone and iPad users are being targeted as part of a massive cyber espionage campaign that is being linked, at least by one firm, to Russia. Operation Pawn Storm is using a specially crafted iOS app to quietly steal text messages, contact lists, location information, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just signed up for a cyber security newsletter with Mondaq, the big British publisher, and I got a confirmation email back after the signup. I get those all the time, so I didn’t really look at the email until later. Two things stand out in the email — First this: To choose your personal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I thought it had been quiet recently – apparently too quiet. Anthem, the healthcare insurance company that operates in 14 states and is the second largest insurance company in the country, reported that it had been hacked. Anthem operates under a lot of names including Anthem Blue Cross, a name well known in the Northeast. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trend Micro is reporting (see here) yet another Adobe Flash zero-day attack in the wild. Yes, this is a new one. No, this is not one I reported about last week. I had to read the article three times to convince myself this was not the exploit I wrote about last week. And, Trend Micro […]
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