Let’s Encrypt Became Let’s Revoke and Then Let’s Confuse Let’s encrypt sent out an alert early this week that they were going to revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on March 4th. That was going to happen because of a software bug on their part which meant that they possibly issued certificates when they should not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In spring 2018 Chenoa Cooper started writing addresses down on slips of paper and her friends knew that if she was running late, she couldn’t warn them. That is because she would leave her phone at home, it had become an abuse machine. Graphic sexual photos and videos of her had been posted online. Posted […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI has been tipped to a hack of around 130,000 Asus routers, details of which are available on the dark web – for sale. To incentivize the sale, the crook has scored each router as to how useful it might be to launch attacks. Access to these devices is being sold for as little […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Visser Precision, a precision parts contract manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado, has confirmed a “cybersecurity incident”. Visser makes parts for the likes of Tesla, Space X, Boeing and defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The ransomware was DoppelPaymer, is one of the Ransomware 2.0 variants that steal the data before they encrypt it. Some of that data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a crook and you want to break in, you might first try the front door. If you discover the front door is locked, you might try another door or a window. Same is true for hackers. As companies slowly improve their defenses on end user web sites, hackers discovered that the APIs […]
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