W. Va. Hospital Breach Timeline – Way Too Long The Monongalia Health System was attacked recently and hackers had access to several email accounts, apparently belonging to contractors from May 10 to August 15 or about three months. It took them another 60 days to investigate. They are just not telling us about the breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Hackers Make Millions by Stealing SEC Earning Reports A Russian hacker working for a cybersecurity company has been extradited to the U.S. for hacking into the computer networks of two SEC filing agents used by multiple companies to file their quarterly and annual SEC reports. Using that insider information, the hacker traded stock in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NEW LOG4J JAVA LIBRARY ZERO-DAY IS BEING EXPLOITED IN THE WILD A proof of concept for a zero-day vulnerability in the very popular Apache Log4j Java library is being shared online. Log4j is used both in enterprises and in cloud services. Products from Apple, Amazon, Twitter and Steam, among others may be vulnerable to remote […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Australia Proposes Law To Force Online Platforms to Disclose User Info Australia plans to introduce legislation that will force social media companies to either take down posts that people don’t like or hand over their user’s information. This isn’t law yet, but I can easily see how this will be gamed. This comes in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]
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