Comcast Xfinity Accounts Hacked in Widespread 2FA Bypass While Comcast is not saying much, a number of users who use Comcast email WITH 2FA are reporting their accounts being hacked. It appears this is due, possibly, to password reuse combined with a bug in Comcast’s system which allows the hackers to bypass 2FA. Once the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have never done this before; there is always a first time. I am going to copy an FBI warning here verbatim (minus some formatting changes inherent in the blog format). The short version is that hackers are using Google and ads to attack you. Also, we do sell some technical solutions that will assist […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sequoia One is an outsourced HR vendor based in San Francisco that serves more than 500 venture-capital backed firms. According to a letter they sent to clients, an unauthorized party (like, say, perhaps, the Chinese government) accessed its cloud storage account. Data that the unauthorized party (AKA the hacker) accessed includes “name, addresses, dates of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As tens of thousands of people in Moore County North Carolina are in the dark and cold as a result of attacks on two power stations in the county. The power stations were intentionally targeted by domestic terrorists who targeted gunfire on the substations’ transformers. While the county is not releasing many details and the […]
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