Krebs on Security is reporting a new method of extracting money from bank accounts. So far, this has been reported as being accomplished in eastern Europe and Russia, but there is certainly no reason why this cannot be accomplished in the U.S. The group starts by sending spear phishing emails to bank employees that look […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not exactly an “Internet Of Things” issue, it points out how long it takes to get things fixed and how the tail of a bug can live on forever. In the case of the Internet of things, people rarely patch their refrigerator, so that bug will live on until the refrigerator is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has released an alert describing the malware that took Sony apart pretty effectively. Without going into a lot of detail, here is the high level overview: The malware takes advantage of Windows SMB (server message block) protocols that are common to all versions of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE 12-17-14 : Sony has cancelled the New York premiere of the movie the Interview according to USAToday and is leaving it up to theatre owners to decide if they want to show the film. The cost of this move as well as if they have insurance to cover it is unknown, although it will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian Krebs, the security blogger that has broken a lot of breach stories was one of the journalists that received a letter from David Boies firm. Today he writes about it and other than the comment about hell freezing over first, he suggests, for the most part, Sony does not have much of a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg has been busy lately with cyber reporting. On December 10th, 2014, they reported that the attack on the Turkish BTC pipeline in 2008 was likely a cyber attack. The Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory caused a 1 megawatt generator to blow up to prove a point a couple of years before this, so […]
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