RSA Security says that the number of fraudulent transactions originating from mobile devices is up 200% since 2015. In 2015 only 5% of fraudulent transactions originated from mobile; in 1st quarter 2018 it was 39%. The volume of fraudulent transactions overall is up 680% and up by 63% since 1st quarter 2017. On the other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco has released an advisory that a half million consumer and small business routers and growing have been infected with malware dubbed VPNFilter. The malware was detected infecting routers from: Linksys MikroTik Netgear TP-Link and QNap storage devices The researchers have not figured out a test that a consumer or small business can use to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While most of the general user base has never heard of DNS and of those that have, only a few of those understand how it works, that has not stopped the hackers from very effectively abusing it against everyone. Very simply, DNS maps the www.xyz.com names that people use in their browsers into the IP […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are always in a cat-and-mouse game with the good guys (and gals) as the hackers try to do us in and the good guys try to swat them away. Microsoft has an add-on to Office 365 called Advanced Threat Protection or ATP. One of the things that ATP does is make links inside emails […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who have been reading my blog for some time, you know that I have written about the software supply chain security problem. In a nutshell, the problem is that programmers rarely write code from zero anymore. Instead teams write pieces of code and integrate it. Then there is limited testing due […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oxygen equipment maker Inogen announced that information on 30,000 customers was hacked as an attacker compromised the credentials of an employee. In the grand scheme of breaches, this one barely registers. Yes, HIPAA protected information was taken (and Health and Human Services may come after them in say 2021, but it is another example of […]
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