No Honor Among Crooks – Darknet Site Extorts Vendors, Buyers I guess we should not be surprised, but darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has posted a threat on its homepage that if its vendors and buyers don’t pay an extortion of between $100 and $20,000, they will publish all of their transaction and chat records. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking and Stealing Your Car From the Outside Through Your Headlight Apparently this is real. Crooks can pop off the headlight trim on some cars and get access to the cables to your “smart” headlights. From there they have access to the data bus called the CAN bus and from there they can unlock and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five Eyes Agencies: SolarWinds Hackers Adopting New Tactics As businesses move to the cloud, hackers are adopting new techniques since Software as a Service providers are much better at patching than most companies are. Instead, the Russian hackers are stealing authentication tokens and using them to get access to the cloud, including creating new accounts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce to Retire After 34 Years Now that is a career in public service. Joyce was the Cyber Director at NSA since 2021 and was at the NSA during the days that it was affectionately called “No Such Agency” for its secretiveness. It comes at a time when cyber threats are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC Bans Robocalls Using AI-Generated Voices This comes after someone generated thousands of robocalls pretending to be Joe Biden telling people not to vote. Unless they get express permission from the recipient of the call, which would, of course, defeat the purpose of the call. The FCC wrote the rule in a way that allows […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DEF CON is Canceled, No Really It is a meme. Every year there are announcements that DEF CON is canceled, but this year it is real. Sort of. DEF CON is the world’s largest hacking convention and has, for years, been held at Caesars in Las Vegas. You may remember that Caesars had an unfortunate […]
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