USA Today is reporting a few more details about the Sony hack-attack. This is very scary and businesses need to consider if this could happen to them (the answer is yes) and if it does, how would they handle it. This is the kind of attack that would put many businesses out of business. Businesses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Too many breaches … too little time 🙂 First a new breach – Bebe Stores (www.Bebe.com) confirmed that they had been breached, but not much else. They said it covered the US, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They did say that it did not affect their online store (no POS terminal to compromise, I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CORRECTION: I said below that the hackers stole 25 GB of data. According to CSO Online, they RELEASED 25 GB of data and this is only a fraction of what they stole. UPDATE: Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) is now reporting additional information: The attackers stole 25 GB of data The malware destroyed data on an unknown […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said in a previous post, it certainly appears that Sony is in the midst of a serious IT problem. Sony has been extremely quiet except to say that they have a “system disruption” that they are “working diligently to repair”. The important question to ask is “If this happened to our company, how […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to multiple news reports (like BBC, Forbes, and Computerworld), Sony has been hacked again. This time they were hacked by the GOP (no, not that GOP, the Guardians of Peace). So, here is what Sony’s office looked like yesterday – and your’s might if you get hacked. Employees came into the office yesterday, turned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on an interesting (yes, I know I am strange, to think that malware attacks are interesting, but they are!) malware attack. The malware, known as DarkHotel, pops up a message alerting the user to a software update as soon as they connect to the hotel’s WiFi. Of course, the update is not a […]
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