System, network and application administrators can do the most damage in case of a malware attack. The permissions that they have allow them to do many things that the average user can’t do and those things, in the hands of a hacker, can mean a lot of damage inside every company. So here is what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is never a good time for the information systems of one of the world’s largest hosted services providers to go down, but in this case, at least it wasn’t April 6th. One of the Dutch firm Wolters Kluwer’s big services is CCH, the online tax software that many accounting firms, large and small, use. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Wiping Github and Other Repos Hackers are attacking repositories of users on Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket, leaving a ransom note that says pay up if you want your software back. The ransom isn’t much – around $500, – which may cause people to pay up rather than trying to recover the data, which I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One good thing about breach notification laws – we tend to find out more information about what actually happened. Last month Citrix announced that hackers broke into their network and stole documents – corporate secrets. They said they found out when the FBI came to tell them (that probably was not fun to admit). Security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With the government doing just about zero when it comes to protecting you from Internet of Things security hacks, this leaves the entire burden on you. A hacker broke into two different GPS tracker apps – he hacked about 7,000 iTrack accounts and 20,000 ProTrack accounts. In general hacking into someone’s web account might cost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI says that reported losses due to Business EMail Compromise attacks reached a whopping $1.3 billion in 2018, double the losses reported in 2017. On the other hand, the number of ransomware complaints is down to levels reported in 2014. There were 20,373 Business EMail Attacks reported last year, compared to 15,690 in 2017. […]
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