Law Firm Goodwin Procter Hacked Goodwin Procter managing parnter Mark Bettencourt confirmed that some of their clients’ data was compromised. But not to worry; it only affected a small percentage of their clients. One more time, we have a “supply chain attack”. While the vendor was unnamed, I suspect it was Accellion. They suffered a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Are You the Victim of Covid Fraud? As if Covid wasn’t bad enough, there are widespread stories of people getting tax forms for their Covid unemployment benefits -benefits they never applied for and never received, but which are considered taxable income. In California alone, crooks stole at least $11 billion in unemployment benefits by stealing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adult Web Site Hacked; 2 Million Records Leaked Most visitors to adult web sites do not want to be “outed”, but that is exactly what happened to 2 million customers of MyFreeCams. While the data stolen (username, email, UNENCRYPTED passwords and account balance) is not that sensitive, the fact that someone has an account there […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Parler Finds A New Home With Russian Hosting Provider in Belize “Hello world, is this thing on? With that message Parler’s website is back online. Well at least a one page website is back online. The site is being hosted by Russian-owned DDoS-Guard, a company that apparently also hosts ISIS web sites. Whether the folks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Britain Says Assange Cannot be Extradited Julian Assange, a long time thorn in the backside of some folks in the US government, cannot be extradited to the US, a British court says. The court said that while he probably can get a fair trial in the US, the court system in the US is unlikely […]
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