Caesars Entertainment, which calls itself the U.S.’s largest casino chain, sort of says it paid a ransom to avoid the online leak of customer data stolen in a recent cyberattack. The attack compromised the chain’s loyalty database, which, according to them, includes driver’s license numbers and social security numbers of many customers. Caesar’s 8-K filed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]73 percent of survey respondents (659 board members from companies with over 5,000 employees) fear a material cyberattack on their organization this year, up from 65 percent last year. 59 percent said that generative AI presents a high risk to their organizations because it can be used by hackers to create and deliver malware with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Warns Other Countries Hack Satellites Like We Do Last week I wrote about US Space Force bragging that they set up a new team to hack adversaries satellites and ground infrastructure. This week the Air Force and NCSC published an advisory that, guess what, other countries are doing the same thing and if the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hacker business is like any other business. There are specialists. In the hacking business, one of the specialties is initial access. Initial access brokers break in to businesses and “collect” credentials. They don’t use those credentials. That is a different specialty. Researchers say that they studied Russian language hacker forums for a few months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2008 a group of MIT students were going to present a paper at the hacking convention Defcon on vulnerabilities in the Boston Transit (called the MBTA) fare card. The MBTA sued Defcon and the presentation was cancelled. But not before the slides for the presentation were published online. While this is an alternative to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zelle is one of the most recent incarnations in peer to peer payments. Peer to peer payments are ones that allow you to directly transfer money from one person’s bank account (the sender) to another’s (the receiver). Competitors to Zelle include PayPal, Venmo, Popmoney and CashApp. The difference with Zelle is that it is owned […]
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