US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was interviewed by the local affiliate of a national TV network earlier today about a hack where a young lady got her bank account emptied out in a matter of seconds after she provided a caller a single 6 digit number. Hopefully this lady will eventually get her money back, but not without a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Note: If you didn’t know that I am against crypto backdoors before, let me just tell you up front, because that fact will be clear by the end. The world works in the most mysterious ways. The FBI has been trying to get phone makers (Apple especially) to install crypto backdoors into iPhones for them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Say 4 Chinese Hackers Took Down Equifax The Department of Justice indicted 4 members of the Chinese People Liberation Army, saying that they were responsible for detecting the fact that Equifax did not patch their some of their servers and thus were easily hackable. This, of course, means that the hack did not require […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In one case, the answer is probably. If I want to delete one of my blog posts, I can probably do that. But not if someone copied it. Which I can’t control. Then they can upload it again. I can send a DCMA take-down notice to the hosting provider, which they might ignore if they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Washington Post is reporting … Outgoing National Security Agency General Counsel Glenn Gerstell says hacking threats from China and other U.S. adversaries pose as great a challenge to the country as climate change. And the government and private sector risk moving too slowly to respond. Outgoing National Security Agency General Counsel Glenn Gerstell says […]
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