Facebook says that 50% of its employees could be working remotely in 5 years. My guess is that this could be the new normal, which is not so good if you own a lot of expensive commercial real estate in a big down town. Zuck also says that employees that move from say San Francisco […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If that headline doesn’t scare you, it should. Ripple20 is a family of 19 vulnerabilities that are part of a library that is used in medical devices, home automation devices, oil & gas controls, networking devices and other industrial control devices. The bugs are in a library that was developed in the 1990s and is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Singapore Updates Contact Tracing App Singapore is not exactly a democracy, so this isn’t a complete surprise. They are updating their contact tracing app to include foreigner’s passport number and scanning of barcodes to facilitate tracking when someone enters a store or mall or restaurant. They would like the program to run in the background, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Maze ransomware group continues to hit new targets like banks and defense contractors, among many others, those companies, in many cases, decide to restore their systems from backups and not pay the ransom. So Maze decided to nuance their crime and steal (or exfiltrate) the data before encrypting it. That way, if the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given that over 40 million Americans filed for unemployment in the last two months, they are likely a fair number of resumes being emailed around. For those people who have been affected by the virus, many of them likely had to fill out medical leave forms. So how can a hacker take advantage of this […]
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