It seems simple, right? You pay for a cloud application to do something – or maybe it is free and you assume the vendor is responsible for the security of your data. Turns out, it is not quite that simple. In fact, far from it. Identity attacks – where the attacker somehow compromises an account, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]North Koreans Attacking Crypto With Social Engineering Because … that is where the money is. The FBI says they are using highly tailored, difficult to detect social engineering campaigns. In spite of the so-called technical expertise of these targeted companies these attacks are effective. Credit: The Record August Ransomware Attack Causes Stoli Vodka to File […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Inquiring minds want to know, as the expression goes. The real question is how quickly can you detect and respond to the exploitation of exposed keys? I bet it is a lot longer than it takes the hackers to find them. Here is what the researchers did. They did a “candy drop” – dropped keys […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EPA tested 1,062 drinking water systems that server over 193 million Americans. That is about 60 percent of the population. However, there are 149,000 drinking water systems in the United States. So that is about 0.7 percent of all of the drinking water systems in the US. A lot of them serve really small […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Even if the UN passes the cybercrime treaty, the Senate would need to ratify it and Trump would need to sign it. It is unclear what Trump’s opinion of the treaty is but he is not a big fan of the UN. The draft of the resolution was approved yesterday, even as tech companies, human […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
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