You probably guessed what #1 and #2 are – the U.S. and China. Any idea with #3 is? If you guessed cybercrime, you would be right. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Global Risks Report 2020” states that cybercrime will be the second most-concerning risk for global commerce over the next decade until 2030. It’s also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Covid-19 Driven Online Shopping Encouraging More Skimming Attacks Since crooks go where the money is and since we are all doing a lot online shopping during the shelter in place directives, the crooks put two and two together to come up with an attack strategy. Malwarebytes says that they are seeing a 26% increase in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is really a ‘dogpile’ event. As Zoom usage has grown from 10 million users a day in January to 200 million users a day now, they are just trying to keep the wheels on the bus. And everyone says that they found some new problem. In fairness, they didn’t seem to be as security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today is patch Tuesday. A group of major software vendors released 567 patches. Microsoft released patches for 113 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches for 405 vulnerabilities. SAP, Intel, Adobe and VMWare accounted for another 49. If you read last week’s post on the 24/72 metric, this means that you have to apply 500+ patches in less […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacker Sells 538 Million Weibo Accounts Karma is a B**tch. With all of the Chinese hacking efforts, someone is hacking back. Is it us? Not clear. In any case, the data includes information like real names, site names, location, etc. and 172 million of the 538 million records include users’ phone numbers, but not passwords. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fintech is a term, that refers, loosely, to all of those companies that want to “help” you manage your financial data in the cloud and are not banks. Examples are Mint, Chime, Credit Karma, Coinbase, Kabbage and hundreds of others. Fintech can also include service providers to banks. Here is the problem. Fintechs are not […]
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