Nulled.io, a forum that sells compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins and other neat stuff was hacked recently, exposing email addresses of people buying and selling, purchase histories and messages between buyers and sellers for 500,000 members. Here is what the website looks like today: If you look at their “tag line” below their logo, it says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare, the denial of service prevention vendor, is reporting hearing of gangs who threaten denial of service attacks unless the victim pays a ransom in bitcoins. Even though they have heard from over 100 customers, none have been attacked, whether they pay or not. Here is the scam. You use the name of a known […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GCHQ is The British version of the CIA. Usually, they are out chasing bad guys in foreign countries. This week they are protecting British citizens. With all of the news of intelligence agencies eavesdropping on citizens, it is nice to hear a story where they are decidedly, doing the right thing. This all started with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you run a point of sale system (POS) in your business you are probably nervous. And with good reason. There have been way too many breaches starting with Target (actually, that wasn’t the start of POS breaches, but it certainly is well known). Here are some ideas for things that you can do in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the U.S. has Snowden, The Brits have Privacy International. As part of a lawsuit, Privacy International obtained formerly secret files regarding the extent of British surveillance. The data the Brits are hoovering up includes private medical records, correspondence with your doctor or lawyer, financial data and other information. And the government admits that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess it should not come as a big surprise as there are more hacks and breaches, but the degree of lost confidence by federal government employees in the last two years is still staggering. Dell conducted a survey of federal government employees in 2014 and again this year and the numbers are amazing. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]