UPDATE: The article says that the 1.35 terabit attack is the largest on record. Well it was. For FOUR days. Using the same technique another U.S. based but unnamed service provider was hit with a 1.7 terabit per second attack a few days after the Github attack. Denial of Service attacks (called DoS or DDoS) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NBC is reporting that the Intelligence Community developed substantial evidence that Russian financed attackers compromised the voter registration systems or web sites of seven states to different degrees. Up until this time DHS has been completely mum about this, saying absolutely nothing. But now NBC is reporting that the seven states are Alaska, Arizona, California, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For at least 8 years the government has known that the border entry system has a hole large enough to drive a terrorist through, to abuse a phrase, and has not done anything about it. While the government was twisting the arms of other countries to put chips in their passports – and about a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If I seem a bit skeptical, that is because I am. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced yesterday that the Justice Department is going to form a committee to study the subject. Last week the leaders of several of the branches of the Intelligence Community testified before Congress saying, publicly, that the Russians did interfere with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While yet another local government being shut down by a ransomware attack is old news these days, it still can point to a few valuable things. This time it is Davidson County, NC, home of Greensboro. At 2:00 in the morning the county’s CIO was woken up – there was something strange going on with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The White House (Council of Economic Advisors) released a 62 page report today detailing the cost of malicious cyber activity in the U.S. in 2016. The White House says that the cost was between $57 Billion and $109 Billion for that one year. That’s billion with a B. The report is available here. The report says […]
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