It is old news that Jeff Bezos was caught cheating on his (soon to be ex-) wife. That isn’t terribly unique news. Powerful men seem to do that a lot. At this point it is still somewhat murky as to how AMI, parent of the National Enquirer, obtained pictures that Jeff shared with his girlfriend. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers have figured out how to attack Office 365 and Google G-Suite accounts protected by Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). No, this is not a bug in some software and no it is not hyper-sophisticated attack. In fact, it is very old school. First, as best I understand, it is a limited attack so it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lets assume your company uses Box Enterprise – just as an example. And then assume that your employees create a file or a folder and want to share it with someone, so they create a link. In the case of Box, the link URLs can be randomly generated or created by the user. A little […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We Don’t Need Back Doors in Crypto – We Have Enough Bugs Already! Researchers have found three new bugs in the protocol design (as opposed to the implementation) in both 4G and 4G cellular networks. The design flaws can be carried out by any person with a little knowledge of cellular paging protocols. The hardware to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just ONE day after the announcement of the NINETEEN YEAR OLD bug in the very popular WinRAR utility, Checkpoint Software found examples of it being exploited in the wild. Given that the vast majority of the 500 million copies will likely NEVER be patched and the fact that the bug allows the hacker to take […]
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