An interesting vulnerability was just announced that affects both Apple and Google/Android phones. That is something that is very unusual. The bug is tied to a part of all cell phones called the baseband processor. It is the part of the phone that controls the radios inside your phone. In this case, the chip is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lately we have had the opportunity to see inside some ransomware attacks and what the cost has been to businesses. For example, I wrote about the Petya malware and what it did to the shipping giant Maersk and the law firm giant DLA Piper. Now we get to find out what happened inside a different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint warning about malware attacks targeting U.S. nuclear plants. The malware has been operating since May. The Amber Alert, the second highest alert level that DHS issues said that the attacks, for the moment are targeting employees’ personal computers as opposed to the isolated network that actually controls […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of the recent London Bridge terrorist attack using a truck as a weapon, British Prime Minister Theresa May has renewed her desire for software vendors to provide her with an encryption backdoor so that British law enforcement can look at messages from iPhones and Facebook’s Whatsapp, among other software. In the U.S., […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the WannaCry Ransomware affected businesses in 150 countries last month, you would think that people would have learned. Apparently not. The Petya ransomware doesn’t encrypt files, it encrypts the whole disk. Unlike typical ransomware that picks selected files (like Word or Excel files), instead this ransomware replaces the Master Boot Record or MBR and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When was the last time you patched your Internet router? Probably never. That is what the CIA is counting on. As well as foreign governments and just plain hackers. But when it comes to the CIA, they are probably not interested in you. That may not be the case when it comes to the other […]
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