GCHQ, the British version of the NSA created a program around 2008 that hacked into Yahoo’s network and captured stills of video chats being conducted by Yahoo users. So as not to overload GCHQ’s servers, the software only stored one image per video session every 5 minutes. Still, in a 6 month period, they captured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time, Microsoft has released an emergency patch to plug a hole in the software that is supposed to protect you from the bad guys. The Windows Defender family of products (including Microsoft Security Essentials, as well as Endpoint Protection, Forefront Endpoint Protection, and Exchange Server 2013 and 2016) has to open the files that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, home to Charlotte, was hit with a ransomware attack that the county was clearly unprepared to handle. The good news, if there is any in a situation like this, is that the attackers only compromised about 48 out of the county’s 500 servers, but other servers were shut down to make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The basis of all cryptocurrency is a really hard math problem. The idea is that because the math is so hard, it takes a lot of CPU cycles to create the next cryptocurrency coin. It used to be that people, who are called miners, could use their computers to mine the next coin and they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who have been around the Denver cyber security scene, Chris Roberts is a bit of an icon. For those of you who do not know him, he is a white hat hacker who most recently got some undesired fame when he tweeted about hacking a Boeing 737 he was on. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel issued an alert for owners of select PCs, Servers and IoT devices running Intel Core processors shipped since 2015. The firmware in those computers may be vulnerable to attack. The attacks may give hackers access to privileged system information and allow attackers to take over those computers. MOST of the attacks require local access, […]
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