There are lots of types of threats to your digital universe. Ransomware. Malicious emails. Infected text messages and many others. But here is one that we have not talked much about, but which has been a real problem and is becoming more of a problem and that is fake updates. We have talked before about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI, CISA, Treasury and FinCEN put out a new alert about a hacking group with a different tactic. While this has been done in the past, it has not been done at scale. The group, Karakurt, does not encrypt your data. Instead they just steal it. What they do after that is give the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Russian troops stole millions of dollars of John Deere farm equipment from an authorized Deere dealer, Agrotek-Invest, in Melitopol, Ukraine, they trailered them to Checknya, about 700 miles away. What the Russians did not know is that (a) the equipment has a GPS in it, so Deere knew exactly where they took it and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yet Another Russian Military “Asset” Catches Fire Russian jet engine design hub Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute which is outside Moscow, did a “halt and catch fire” due to a fire at the electrical substation which powered the former design center. Score one for Ukraine, according to Russia. Russia claims it is the world’s largest scientific research […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While any form of two factor authentication is better than none, there are still security holes. In a story I read tonight, a tech savvy user fell for a social engineering attack. He received what he thought was an Instagram message from a friend and responded to it. It turns out it was a social […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Flaw in uClibc Allows DNS Poisoning Attacks A flaw in all versions of the popular C standard libraries uClibc and uClibc-ng can allow for DNS poisoning attacks against target devices. The library is likely used in milliosn of Internet of Things devices that will never be patched and will always be vulnerable. This is where […]
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