You might think that after the Panama Papers breach in which the law firm of Mossack Fonseca was hacked and 11 million documents exposed – including ones that forced the prime minister of Iceland to resign and the prime minister of Pakistan to be removed from office – that law firms around the world would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you didn’t know whom or what to believe in the battle between Gene Kaspersky and the U.S. Government, it just got a little weirder. You probably remember that the DoD told its people to remove Kaspersky’s software from it’s machines. They didn’t say why. But, no matter how this story plays out, that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI released an alert this week about malware called CrySiS that attacks public facing servers that have RDP enabled. RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol is an old Microsoft protocol that was designed to allow IT people to remotely control a Windows machine (server or desktop) to perform maintenance. The protocol is old – it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what is an unusual move by the FBI and DHS, CERT released a security bulletin saying that attackers were going after government entities and critical infrastructure and had been doing so at least since May. They said this is a multi-stage attack, going after low security and small networks and then moving inside those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Doublelocker malware is a new strain of Android malware. Rather than finding some vulnerability in the Android OS, it ASKS the user politely, may I please install this malware on your computer. It does this by pretending to be, for example, an Adobe Flash update. Since Flash updates are so common, some people don’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]John Biggs, a contributing writer for Tech Crunch described the details of a hacker’s attack on his online world. John detailed the entire hack and it is very useful for everyone. WHY he was attacked is not clear. Was it a target of opportunity or was he specifically being attack? It appears that it may […]
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