I have said, in the past, how come the government doesn’t warn companies when they have intel that the companies are targets of hackers? Well, we did get one data point on that after the DNC hack last year, but now we have more data points. As a reminder about what happened last year, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Netflix might be the new Sony. As a result of the Sony breach, 5 full length movies were released on pirate movie web sites. Among the movies released were Annie and Fury, along with three others. Now Netflix is in the hackers’ radar. In addition to the entire new season of Orange is the New […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since we all know that misery loves company, it may bring some comfort that even Facebook and Google can fall victim to business email compromise scams. In one way, that makes perfect sense since the weak link is always people. On the other hand, you would think that big companies like Facebook and Google would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just when I thought I had heard it all comes a new form of attack – called homographs. Homograph attacks in browsers can happen because browsers have to support internationalization – languages other than English. In this demo page below, it looks like the web site is an HTTPS Apple.com web page. Note: you can […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Occasionally, the good guys win. Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, son of a Russian Parliament member was sentenced to 27 years in jail after being convicted on 38 counts. The idiot made the mistake of vacationing in the Maldives, either thinking the FBI didn’t know who he was, wasn’t watching him or thinking he was special […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA and CIA can’t seem to keep their toys under wraps. Last week the Shadow Brokers released more NSA tools. The generally agreed upon theory is that the tools were developed by the NSA’s Equation Group, a hacking for hire contractor. What is less clear is how they got out. One possibility is that […]
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