You have probably heard about Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks where scammers pose as company executives and ask the accounting department to wire money to them. The FBI says this is highly effective and big business. To the tune of $5 billion in losses since 2013. In fact the SEC discovered that 9 publicly traded […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An attack that was originally spotted in August affecting DLink routers has spread to over 100,000 routers including 70 different models. The attack originally targeted Brazilian banking customers by compromising their internet router, changing the DNS server and pointing them to a bogus, look-alike banking site. From there, they steal your credentials. Not satisfied with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former WaPo columnist turned security sleuth (after the Washington Post eliminated his position because cyber security was not important) reported on several recent vishing (voice phishing) scams, two of which involved large sums of money. These are a word to the wise, both personally and for businesses. In the first case, Matt Haughey, creator of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ancient Chinese Proverb: May You Live In Interesting Times. Well welcome to interesting times. Today, Facebook said that the accounts of 50 million users were compromised. The hackers compromised the security “tokens” that Facebook uses to authenticate users and not the passwords themselves. Facebook revoked those users “tokens” to stop them from continuing to be used. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hackers seem to be winning. One solution I have advocated for over the last many years to reduce credit card fraud is a technique called credit card tokenization. When a merchant accepts a credit card, that card information is immediately tokenized and that token is all that the merchant keeps. If they need to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Web Attack Will Crash Your iPhone, iPad or Mac A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your i-device with just 15 lines of code. The code exploits a weakness in iOS’ web rendering engine WebKit, which Apple mandates all apps and browsers use. Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected. That […]
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