There are not a lot of details, but Network World is reporting that the Penn State College Of Engineering took their Internet connection “off the hook”. Last November Penn State got a visit from the FBI – that visit that everyone hopes that they will never get. Penn State was the victim of two cyber […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting that hackers have found yet another opportunity. Hacking your Starbucks app, they add new cards to the account, then use your autofill bank account to load them. Starbucks has acknowledged that this is happening, but says that they were not hacked. Customer’s bank accounts are getting drained, however. Apparently, the way it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For the second time in a year, Sally Beauty Supply may have been hacked. In March 2014 they were hacked to the tune of 260,000 credit cards (see post) and now they are investigating another (or maybe the old breach was never completely wiped out) breach. Brian Krebs is reporting new details on last year’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reports of Uber customers saying that they are being charged for rides that they did not take are beginning to surface in the United States (previous reports have been international). In at least some cases, Uber is refunding the cost if people contact them. Uber continues to claim that they cannot find any evidence of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft just patched a bug this month (see article) that potentially allows a hacker to take over your computer and for sure allows a hacker to crash it – repeatedly – all because they forgot to check for a carry overflow in an addition operation. It potentially affects 70 million web sites and is being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported today that the age of drone vandalism has come. Early Wednesday morning, the graffiti artist/vandal known as KATSU used a hacked Phantom drone to deface a 6 story tall Calvin Klein billboard on Houston Street in New York City and posted the tagging of the billboard on You Tube. Given what he did […]
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