Researchers have discovered a problem with AD Connect in an Office 365 hybrid AD environment. In this situation, hybrid means both onsite Active Directory and cloud Active Directory. This is the environment that most Office 365 users who federate accounts use. The bug was discovered earlier this month by Preempt, a vendor of cyber security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the intelligence community to collect intelligence on non-Americans outside the United States without a warrant. As the intelligence community hoovers up huge quantities of data (they just built a new facility in Utah so that they could bring enough storage online to hold all the data), […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The creators of the Mirai botnet pleaded guilty earlier this month in an Anchorage courtroom. The Mirai botnet unleashed a distributed denial of service attack on the French cellular carrier OVH and another DDoS attack against DYN, the DNS provider for Amazon, Netflix and many other heavy duty web sites. The DDoS attacks took those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Splashdata, who makes password management software, releases a list of the top compromised passwords. They did this by collecting five million compromised passwords and analyzing them. The top password this year is, again, 123456 . The number two password is, yes, password . Number three is 12345678 . You can read the article to get all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, this is not a new Bond movie; it is, instead, an example of one of the many weaknesses of an Internet that was never designed to handle malicious attackers. I will try to make this as non-technical as I can, but it will be a bit technical, so please stay with me. Larger Internet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Mirai botnet infected a couple hundred thousand Internet of Things devices last year by seeing if the default userid and password was not changed. If it was not changed, it took over the device. That attack then took down Dyn, a very high end DNS service. When Dyn went down, so did Dyn’s customers […]
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