The Swiss Bank BCGE was hacked, according to Network World, by a group of hackers who miscalculated a bit. The hacking group, Rex Mundi, has an M.O. of hacking businesses and then demanding a small ransom from the company in exchange for not publishing what they took. In this case, they hacked their way into […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Central Command, responsible for the military’s activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and a number of other countries in that region was the victim of a hack earlier today. Centcom’s Twitter feed and You Tube channel were compromised and defaced. Twitter quickly disabled the feed but not before some charts and contact information for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting that visitors to HuffPo and several other major sites last week might have caught a virus from malware infected Advertisements. The malware only infected Windows PCs and only those running Internet Explorer 8 (does anyone really use IE any more?). Even though IE11 is the current version of IE, according to CNN, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]VentureBeat wrote an interesting item pointing out some of the obvious things that Target messed up. Fixing these items won’t stop every attack, but it certainly would slow the attackers down. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court recently Target missed the ball on a few things. Of course, at this point, these are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In some sense, cyber attacks are no different that physical world attacks; in other ways, they are completely different. Let’s assume that you did not physically catch some bad guys that broke into a building. Do you know who broke in? On rare occasions they leave something behind – there have been instances so rare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike the Sony breach in November, the group that took down Sony’s and Microsoft’s game network on Christmas (see article) seems to be very interested in getting attention. Hopefully enough so that the FBI finds them, but that is another story. What is more important is that the people who did this, according to Brian […]
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