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Security News Update for the Week Ending March 10, 2023

Even the DoJ Thinks John Deere Should Let Farmers Fix Their Tractors The “right to repair” movement has been growing for the last decade. John Deere has been leading the “its not safe for you to fix your own tractor” movement for years, saying they have made tractors too complicated for owners to fix. The […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending March 3, 2023

Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022 Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giantĀ T-MobileĀ in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then […]

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So You Think You Are Saving Money by Letting People Use Personally Owned Computers

Many companies allow employees to use their own personal computers for work. They do this for employee convenience and an apparent cost savings. After all, if we don’t have to buy employees their own laptop, certainly we will save money. At least it seems like that is true. In a perfect world, with no hackers, […]

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GoDaddy Admits Hackers Roamed Their Network for THREE YEARS!

I’ve never been a fan of GoDaddy for a variety of reasons, but now I have a major reason not to like them. In 2020 GoDaddy alerted 28,000 customers that an attacker used their credentials in 2019 to abuse their hosting accounts. That is over 3 years ago and that was the start of a […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending February 17, 2023

BlackCat Leaks Irish University’s Hacked Data I reported last week that Munster Technological University closed several of its campuses after a ransomware attack, which the university, apparently did not pay. The Irish High Court issued an injunction prohibiting the hackers from leaking the data and return any data that they had. They did “return” it […]

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