Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cyber Insurance Company Coalition Says Claims Payment Down From Last Year Cyber insurer Coalition says that it’s clients’ average claims for losses for ransomware attacks was $184,000 for the first half of this year, down 45% from the second half of last year. This, they say, is because they are doing better at negotiating ransoms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Votes UNANIMOUSLY to Enforce Right to Repair As companies like John Deere and Apple fight to keep their exceptionally lucrative repair business to themselves, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to enforce laws around right to repair. While this won’t eliminate all the barriers to users fixing stuff that they paid thousands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply Chain Attacks Roll On The Accellion File Transfer Appliance vulnerabilities have been the source of many breach notifcations over the last several months. For whatever reason, they seem to be dribbling out. The newest one is Morgan Stanley. In this case, it was a Morgan Stanley VENDOR that was using Accellion, so instead of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Flash – The Gift That Keeps on Giving Flash, that piece of garbage software that Adobe finally killed a few months ago and which, I have said, should have been killed 20 years ago, it turns out, is at the root of another supply chain hack. For many people, supply chain attacks first came to […]
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