Today’s supply chain attack is interesting. I guess I can say that because it didn’t happen to a web site that I own and my information didn’t get stolen. Here is the situation. Many web sites have embedded videos on them. In this case, most of the sites affected were real estate web sites and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]iOS devices running 14.7 through 15.2 – basically all devices – are subject to a denial of service attack that forces the user to do a factory reset, wiping all of the user’s data. If the user logs in to iCloud to restore the data, the denial of service attack will replay once the data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]W. Va. Hospital Breach Timeline – Way Too Long The Monongalia Health System was attacked recently and hackers had access to several email accounts, apparently belonging to contractors from May 10 to August 15 or about three months. It took them another 60 days to investigate. They are just not telling us about the breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Hackers Make Millions by Stealing SEC Earning Reports A Russian hacker working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. for hacking into the computer networks of two SEC filing agents used by multiple companies to file their quarterly and annual SEC reports. Using that insider information, the hacker traded stock in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Log4j is a very popular server logging package used across the Internet on Linux servers and other devices. This package is used not only in corporate software development environments, but also by very well known companies like Apple. It is also used in IoT devices and other appliances. DHS’s CISA has created a web page […]
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