In 2022 security companies that track these attacks saw a rise in the number and sophistication of attacks on critical infrastructure. They also saw the introduction of a malware toolkit with plugins to attack tens of thousands of control systems across every industry. Responders discovered, not surprisingly, that the vast majority (more than 75%) of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitch streamers are notorious for going after other streamers. Not sure how that started, but it is a thing. Two weeks ago, Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing (aka Atrioc) was doing a live stream for his 318,000 followers and, supposedly, inadvertently showed his open browser tabs showing that he visited a website selling deep fake porn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently there have been alerts where the number of people who received alerts was vastly larger than optimal. In one case here, instead of notifying a few hundred people, 750,000 people were alerted, including some who were more than 50 miles away from the target area. Some of these were due to system malfunctions/design limitations, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a big number and even if it is off by say 25% or 30%, that is still huge. Cisco Systems surveyed over a thousand organizations across Australia, India, Japan, Germany, the UK and US. All companies had revenues in excess of $500 million, so you can’t say these are small shops without a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oh, Boy, Bad Day at Work – FAA NOTAM Failure Caused by Contractor Deleting Wrong Files The FAA is now saying that the NOTAM failure earlier this month that shut down air traffic for around 90 minutes was caused by human error. A contractor was trying to fix a synchronization problem between the primary and […]
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