US Emergency Alert System Has a Minor Bug Homeland Security has issued an alert that there are critical vulnerability in the Emergency Alert System encoder and decoder devices. If left unpatched, it would allow a hacker to issue fake warnings of emergencies. The EAS is the nationwide alert system that is used to warn citizens […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The All Writs Act is a law that dates back to the late 1700s. It allows the government to force companies to do all sorts of things. Completely legally. Usually very quietly. In this case the government was trying to find a Russian national, Aleksey Burkov. The government wanted to track him so that he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TSA Updates Cybersecurity Guidelines for Pipeline Operators After the Colonial Pipeline meltdown last year, TSA, who regulates pipeline cybersecurity (don’t ask), issued a set of regulations for pipeline operators to follow. Given that TSA had less than a dozen people in their cybersecurity department and zero industrial IoT expertise, it is not a surprise that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Experian Users Say Their Account Has Been Hacked Brian Krebs is reporting that two users have written to him in the last month saying that their accounts at Equifax was hacked. Both users claim to have used strong, unique passwords with password managers. Equifax does not offer MFA (shocking! Actually not, this is Equifax that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ZuoRAT Hijacks SOHO Routers Researchers have found a multi-stage remote access trojan (RAT) being used against a wide range of small and home office routers in Europe and North America. The RAT has been active since 2020 according to the researchers. The malware exploits known vulnerabilities (which is why patching IoT devices and making sure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Cyber Attacks Lithuania After Gov Refuses to Let Russian Coal, Steel Trains Through Apparently Russia couldn’t figure out a way to do any real damage, so they launched a denial of service attack against a bunch of Lithuanian web sites.. This includes the state tax inspector, migration department and secure national data network. The […]
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