There is a great piece on ZDNet today about a writer who’s phone number was stolen (not the phone, the number) using a SIM swap attack. In this case, the phone company was T-Mobile and all the hacker had to do is call them, given them a bit of the victim’s information (like secret stuff […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“Think of this – one man with total control of billions of people’s stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures…” So begins a fake video using technology and videos of Mark Zuckerberg saying completely different things (see here). It even has a CBS News logo on it. CBS asked Facebook to take it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SandboxEscaper Releases Yet Another Windows Zero-Day SandboxEscaper has it in for Microsoft. He or she has released over a half dozen zero-days including four of them just a couple of weeks ago. He or she has put Microsoft behind the power curve multiple times and now he or she is doing it again. This time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I will start with the spoiler – it is not. Pentesters and hackers now have a new tool in their arsenal to defeat two factor authentication. The tool was just released at the security conference Hack-In-The-Box and is now available on Github. Hackers had to get creative in order to attack web sites that were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]More Information on the Baltimore Cyberattack Baltimore estimates that it will wind up spending $18 million to recover from the cyberattack – which is why many organization just pay the ransom. The attackers only wanted $103,000 or less than 1 percent of what they are going to spend. Of course, if an organization does that, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Baltimore Ransomware Attack Could Be Blamed on the NSA I think this is what they call a tease. Technically correct, however. You may remember the NSA hacking tool that got out into the wild called EternalBlue? It was leaked by the hacking group ShadowBrokers in 2017. Before that, it exploited a Microsoft bug that the […]
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