US CERT (Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Response Team AKA Computer Emergency Readiness Team) released an alert today for an attack named KRACK for Key Reinstallation Attack. While an article on ARS Technica says that this attack is especially dangerous for Android, Linux and OpenBSD (so much for open source being secure), the Homeland Security alert […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I write this, a couple of very large and very significant breaches have recently either taken place or been revealed – specifically Yahoo’s breach impacting 3 billion users and Equifax’s breach affecting at least 145 million. But there are countless other breaches every day – in fact so many that most don’t even make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T U-Verse, which used to be what they called their triple play Internet-phone-TV package and now is just their TV package has about 4 million customers. Compared to AT&T Directv, that is small, but still substantial. Some part of that customer base uses Arris modems – maybe 150,000. Those modems have serious security holes that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There have always been questions about connections between Gene Kaspersky’s company and the Russian spy agencies like the FSB, but not necessarily any hard proof. Last month, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to remove Kaspersky anti virus software without any real explanation. Some thought it was as retribution while others thought it was over-reaction. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCleaner is a very popular disk utility that allows a user to securely erase certain content from their hard drives – like deleted files and cookies, among many other things. Coming in both a free and paid version, CCleaner has been used safely by users for years. Last month, however, hackers managed to inject malware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update to who may be affected. On October 10th, 2017, the Guardian is reporting that while Deloitte has only admitted that they have notified six clients, sources are saying that the server that was compromised contained emails for 350 clients, the US Departments of State, Energy, Homeland Security and Defense, The US Postal Service, The […]
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