4Chan Cesspool is Back Online 4Chan, the cesspool of a website that spews all sorts of hate and garbage, is back. Unfortunately. They have described what happened, loosely. Bottom line was that they were not maintaining their systems and, as a result, they were hacked. Their data and source code was hacked and the rest […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of us in the industry this is not a surprise, but to others it may be. That title used to belong to Russia, but not any more. Russia is busy with a war and while it still is good at launching ransomware attacks, otherwise, it is more than a bit distracted. China, on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I always say, the reason we have so much cybercrime is that it really pays. Here is the “elevator pitch” version. Remember, this only represents the people who reported the crimes to the FBI. That means that this number is dramatically low. And, while the number of complaints reported year over year is up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has confirmed an attack on all 1.8 billion GMail users’ data. If you are one of those 1.8 billion, continue reading. I saw this attack a couple of weeks ago and kind of blew it off, but apparently, it is significant. You get an email that looks like it came from Google and even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Work from Home Security Considerations As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EU has confirmed that it issues burner phones to top officials travelling to the United States but says it wasn’t caused by the new regime. It follows the Financial Times reporting of increased risk of surveillance when travelling to the US amid reports of US treatment of individuals transiting its borders. Customs’ opinion is that they […]
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