The nuclear power industry has always been nervous about people’s fear of some form of nuclear meltdown. Whether it was Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, the spectre of something bad happening at a nuclear plant has been the story of made for TV movies. The UK Telegraph newspaper has obtained information, using a freedom of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bugcrowd Paid Over $500,000 in Bug Bounties in Just One Week Bugcrowd, the crowd-sourced bug bounty management company, paid out over $500,000 in just one week for bugs that researchers found and paid out $1.6 million in October to over 550 hackers, representing 1,800 submissions. Of those, 327 were categorized as priority 1. These payouts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Magecart is a major (virtual) credit card skimming attack that has taken down the likes of British Airways and Ticket Master, among tens of thousands of other sites. It works by somehow inserting malicious software into the web server that grabs the customer’s credit card info as they enter it onto the web page. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hopefully by now, everyone has at least heard of multifactor authentication. But most people are not using it. Google says that about 10 percent of GMail customers use it. Based on our customer base, the adoption level for Office 365 users is higher, but not great. And the adoption for other software is horrible. To […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SmarterASP.net, a web hosting provider with over 400,000 customers, was infected by ransomware over the weekend. They are, at least, the third provider to be hit by such an attack. Affected user web sites are down and the company’s website was also down. Customers logging in might see a directory listing that looks like this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Johannesburg, South Africa Attacker Threatens Data Breach In what I think is going to be the way of the future, hackers compromised Joburg IT systems and threatened to publish data that they stole if the ransom is not paid. As I write this, the deadline has just passed, they have not paid the ransom, the […]
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