Huawei Ban – Is It A National Security Issue or Bargaining Chip? Back in May, President Trump issued a ban on US companies buying from or selling to Huawei (see here). Since then, the government has issued an extension to the ban 90 days at a time and the government just issued another extension. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Malware is like any other piece of software. Version one is usually pretty crappy – want vendors like to affectionately call a “minimum viable product”. Sometime minimal is loosely defined. In this case the malware is called GINP. The trojan has been in the wild since June. In the five months since, it has evolved. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have been saying for a while, hackers are good at evolving. As we see more and more ransomware attacks, a lot of the people are opting not to pay the ransom and instead deal with reconstructing their infrastructure and losing data (like police losing digital evidence and having to let crooks go). So […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well maybe not concerned enough to change their practices, but concerned. When asked if their data is more secure, less secure or about the same as compared to five years ago, 70 percent said their data was less secure. 6 percent said it was more secure. On the side of “gee, you mean I have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bugcrowd Paid Over $500,000 in Bug Bounties in Just One Week Bugcrowd, the crowd-sourced bug bounty management company, paid out over $500,000 in just one week for bugs that researchers found and paid out $1.6 million in October to over 550 hackers, representing 1,800 submissions. Of those, 327 were categorized as priority 1. These payouts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Magecart is a major (virtual) credit card skimming attack that has taken down the likes of British Airways and Ticket Master, among tens of thousands of other sites. It works by somehow inserting malicious software into the web server that grabs the customer’s credit card info as they enter it onto the web page. This […]
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