Australian Emergency Notification System Hacked The Australian Emergency Warning Network, run by a private company, was hacked. The hacker sent out a message that said “EWN has been hacked. Your personal data stored with us is not safe. We are trying to fix the security issues. Please email support at .. if you want to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law in Effect Vietnam’s new “cybersecurity” law which requires companies to remove any content from the Internet that the government finds offensive went into effect on January 1. It also requires some companies like Facebook and Google to open offices in Vietnam if they want to continue to do business there. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Adobe’s December patch list fixed 87 separate bugs in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. 39 of these are rated critical. Last week they patched a critical zero day in Flash (Details here). More Spy Cams The other day I reported the the DEA was buying spy camera enclosures to hide inside of street […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japan’s Cybersecurity Minister has Never Used a Computer Yoshitaka Sakurada, the deputy chief of Japan’s cybersecurity strategy office and the minister in charge of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo says that he doesn’t use computers – basically, he has secretaries and employees to do that. He also acted confused about whether Japan’s nuke plants […]
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