The FBI says that reported losses due to Business EMail Compromise attacks reached a whopping $1.3 billion in 2018, double the losses reported in 2017. On the other hand, the number of ransomware complaints is down to levels reported in 2014. There were 20,373 Business EMail Attacks reported last year, compared to 15,690 in 2017. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week, I wrote about the Wipro hack (if you didn’t see that post, click on the search box and enter Wipro). While Wipro is being pretty close-mouthed about what happened due to the inevitable lawsuits, SLA complaints and even claims of breached contracts, it isn’t stopping the media from reporting on it. In fact, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel created malware that could infect a CT scanner and cause it to provide either false positive or false negative readings. The researchers took real CT lung scans and let their malware modify the scans. In the cases where the researchers created fake cancerous nodes, the radiologists who read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Brian Krebs reported that Indian mega-outsourcer Wipro was hacked. Apparently Wipro’s systems were being used to launch attacks against Wipro’s customers. Wipro’s PR police said that they are investigating. I am sure that they are. Given that Wipro’s customers likely trust Wipro, it is a good launchpad for attacks against their customers. When Brian (Krebs) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While some people say that you can’t prove that people have been harmed by lax cybersecurity practices, the laws are making it more expensive for companies to believe this. Fines in the hundreds of thousands, millions and even billions of dollars are happening. So whether companies believe cybersecurity is an issue or not, their wallets […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or so says Christopher Wray, the current director of the FBI, testifying before a Congressional committee. My guess, having talked to my share of FBI agents, including today, is that he is correct. The basic premise of all police work is that the number of crimes is relatively small. No so with cyber. Also, it […]
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