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What If Local Hospitals Were Hit With Ransomware?

Remember the Wannacry attack that basically took down the UK healthcare system and which CBS says will cost about $4 billion to mitigate? Well, a few medical experts with a bent towards hacking presented the results of a simulation they conducted regarding what would happen if local hospitals were hit by a coordinated malware attack. […]

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Just In Case You Thought Two Factor Authentication Was a Silver Bullet

I will start with the spoiler – it is not. Pentesters and hackers now have a new tool in their arsenal to defeat two factor authentication. The tool was just released at the security conference Hack-In-The-Box and is now available on Github. Hackers had to get creative  in order to attack web sites that were […]

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Security News Bytes for the Week Ending June 7, 2019

More Information on the Baltimore Cyberattack Baltimore estimates that it will wind up spending $18 million to recover from the cyberattack – which is why many organization just pay the ransom.  The attackers only wanted $103,000 or less than 1 percent of what they are going to spend.  Of course, if an organization does that, […]

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Will New York Follow In California’s Footsteps?

The New York Privacy Act was introduced last month.  Like California’s CCPA, it gives consumers more power over their data, but in addition to that, it would require companies to put their customer’s privacy before their own interests.  I am sure that there will be a huge lobbying effort by special interests. While the sponsor is still […]

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