There are lots of types of threats to your digital universe. Ransomware. Malicious emails. Infected text messages and many others. But here is one that we have not talked much about, but which has been a real problem and is becoming more of a problem and that is fake updates. We have talked before about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI, CISA, Treasury and FinCEN put out a new alert about a hacking group with a different tactic. While this has been done in the past, it has not been done at scale. The group, Karakurt, does not encrypt your data. Instead they just steal it. What they do after that is give the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Warns US Colleges of Widespread VPN Credential Leaks – On Russian Crime Forums Here’s a shocker. Cybersecurity practices at US colleges and universities are not so good. According to an FBI PIN (Color WHITE, general distribution), Russian cybercrime forums are offering network and VPN credentials for sale for many US higher education institutions, some […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t know whether to think this is abnormal or not. I think it is not. Tim Hortons is fast food chain, based in Canada with about 5,000 restaurants in 15 countries, including the United States. Like many companies, Timmies (yup, that is one of the names for it) has an app. And, like many […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I can tell you from personal experience of our pentesting that this is true. We often find password documents – spreadsheets and text documents, unencrypted and unprotected. This is in spite of the fact that 93% of the respondents require password management training and 63% hold that training more than once a year. 8 percent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Russian troops stole millions of dollars of John Deere farm equipment from an authorized Deere dealer, Agrotek-Invest, in Melitopol, Ukraine, they trailered them to Checknya, about 700 miles away. What the Russians did not know is that (a) the equipment has a GPS in it, so Deere knew exactly where they took it and […]
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