Marc Rogers (white hat hacker and principal security researcher for Cloudflare) wrote about an interesting problem Lenovo users have. (see article) What is not clear is how long Lenovo has been doing this. The good news is that a friend of Marc’s has created a test to see if your Lenovo laptop is infected. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Alleged Russian hacker Validimir Drinkman, 34, was arraigned yesterday on hacking into 16 companies including The NASDAQ stock exchange, 7-11, J.C. Penney, Dow Jones, Heartland Payment Systems and others and stealing 160 million credit card numbers (see article). The attacks go as far back as 2005. Brian Krebs provides an inventory of some of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Denver TV station is reporting that they have received over 70 reports of Verizon customers who have been targeted by hackers who have masqueraded as them and ordered new iPhones shipped to out of state addresses. Verizon claims that they have not been breached and that could be true. It could be as simple […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It’s not been a great year for the NSA. First Snowden and all press they have gotten as a result of the leaked documents that seem to come out every month. Now a Russian security researcher, Gene Kaspersky, that I wrote about recently (see post) revealed that they have detected malware in the firmware of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that Kaspersky Labs is working with Interpol, Europol and other law enforcement authorities to ferret out more details of the attack, but they have announced several details. Gene Kaspersky, founder and head of Kaspersky Labs is well known in white hat (good guy) hacking circles. His public pronouncements, while sometimes flashy, usually […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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