Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week. And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers. Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies. The attack against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably remember Edward Snowden (just kidding!). Snowden was a Booz, Allen, Hamilton employee, on contract to the NSA. Well now there is another Snowden at Booz. Booz has annual revenue in excess of $5 billion and has contracts all over the federal government. Earlier this month, the feds arrested Harold Thomas Martin […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As has been predicted, in a court filing from May 2016, the DoJ authorized the cops to “depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the subject premises during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if things weren’t bad enough for Marissa Mayer and Yahoo after the announcement of losing 500 million user records and the very negative article in the NY Times last week about how they treated security, now there is a new revelation. Supposedly, Yahoo wrote custom software to search all emails in real time for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way. After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer; it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times published an interesting piece on the Yahoo breach. The Times says that 6 years ago Yahoo, Google and a number of other tech companies were hacked by the Chinese. That is where the similarity ends, according to the Times. At Google, co-founder Sergey Brin took the hack personally. Google hired hundreds […]
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