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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I keep saying that ransomware is morphing; that the ransomware that we have known for the last many years is no more. It used to be that the hackers could get people to pay by encrypting their data, so people started doing better with backups. Not necessarily great, but better. So last year one hacker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Have Access to iOS 14 Months Before You Will Apple gives developers early prototypes of their new software so that Apple doesn’t have a disaster on its hands when the new software is released and user’s applications no longer work. Unfortunately, some developers sell those phones – or at least access to them – […]
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