Flash – The Gift That Keeps on Giving Flash, that piece of garbage software that Adobe finally killed a few months ago and which, I have said, should have been killed 20 years ago, it turns out, is at the root of another supply chain hack. For many people, supply chain attacks first came to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NFC, or Near Field Communications, is that technology that allows you to wave your credit card or phone near a reader and pay for a Starbucks or get money from an ATM without having to take that card out of your wallet. Many of you have heard me say “Security or convenience, pick only one”. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]WD NAS Devices Are Being Wiped Worldwide The downside of using computers beyond their end of support is that you can get hacked and all of your data can get wiped. This is what has happened to many WD My Book owners. Western Digital stopped patching them in 2015 and hackers have figured out how […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Recover Some of the Colonial Pipeline Ransom The feds say that they recovered most of the Bitcoin paid as ransom, but because the price of Bitcoin is in a slump, it is only worth about $2 million. The feds say that they acquired the private key to the Bitcoin wallet and transferred 63 Bitcoin […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Attackers have figured out that x-rated phishing attacks are very successful. The number of attacks are up almost by a factor of 10. In part, it is designed to shock people. If you open an email or visit a web site and when you do, some x-rated content, most people freak out. THAT IS EXACTLY […]
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