Homeland Security’s newly named agency – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to executive branch agencies – many of which have personnel on furlough – regarding a DNS hijacking issue. The issue is not limited to agencies and every company and private individual that owns one or more Internet domains […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of the most popular business email compromise scams (BEC) target accounting and finance or human resources. The scam usually works something like this. Someone in the target department – often not too high up in the food chain – gets a email pretending to be from an executive like the CEO or CFO. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]City of Del Rio, Texas Reverts to the 1950s – Paper and Pen – After Ransomware Attack Update: The city says that it cannot issue utility bills which means that it won’t get utility revenue from residents. Del Rio, Texas, on the Texas-Mexico border was hit by a ransomware attack this week and as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Magecart malware has stolen credit card information from such high profile web sites as British Airways, Ticketmaster and Newegg. The malware works by inserting a little bit of code – usually Javascript – into the page(s) of a web site that collects credit card information. When a customer visits that page the malware collects […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Motherboard was able to buy real time location data from a broker for a T-Mobile phone for $300. This is not illegal. The food chain for location data is very complicated. In this case, T-Mobile sold the data to data aggregator Zumigo. Zumigo sold it to Microbilt. Microbilt sold it to a bounty hunter. Who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mondelez is the parent company of Nabisco, Oreo, Ritz and many other brands that are part of Kraft Foods. Mondelez, like many other companies, was a victim of the NotPetya attack which turned 1,700 servers and 24,000 workstations at Mondelez into very expensive bricks. Mondelez’ insurance company, Zurich American, denied the claim and hence the […]
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