I wrote a while back about hackers that had compromised a law firm and its customer Hiscox insurance – or said differently Hiscox and its vendor. The law firm was handling claims related to 9/11 (almost 20 years later and still litigating!). A lot of law firms (certainly not all) have not figured out that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many of us use Internet services – Dropbox for file sharing, Google for collaboration, Mint for finances and many others. Some of us – individuals and businesses – have data spread far and wide over the web. So wide that in many cases we really don’t know where our data lives or how it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GoDaddy has an interesting feature. If a hacker creates a FREE GoDaddy account they can and have created a whole bushel of mischief. If you have a free account, you can use GoDaddy’s managed DNS service for free for a limited amount of time. Only problem is that GoDaddy didn’t validate that you owned the domain […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security’s newly named agency – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to executive branch agencies – many of which have personnel on furlough – regarding a DNS hijacking issue. The issue is not limited to agencies and every company and private individual that owns one or more Internet domains […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of the most popular business email compromise scams (BEC) target accounting and finance or human resources. The scam usually works something like this. Someone in the target department – often not too high up in the food chain – gets a email pretending to be from an executive like the CEO or CFO. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You can get anything on the Internet. One of the relatively recent additions are web sites that you can pay (I presume in Bitcoin) to “stress” a web site that you don’t like. Stress is a euphemism for denial of service attacks which force the target site offline. They have charged 3 men today – […]
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