Licking County, Ohio, population 116,000, which bills itself as the 17th largest county in the state has been thrust back into the dark ages. A ransomware attack has taken down all of the county’s computers, including 911 dispatch and, they are saying, it will be a while before things are back to normal. On Tuesday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not only are hackers lazy but security researchers are lazy too. Researcher Simon Kenin was being lazy one day and decided to try to hack his Netgear router. Interesting definition of lazy – his, not mine. He came upon an old, known authentication vulnerability. It allowed him to recover his forgotten password without authenticating himself […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike the very public fight between the FBI and Apple, the U.S. Government has made many quiet attempts to force tech companies to turn over source code and private encryption keys. In some cases, this was done via civil cases sealed by the court, but in other cases, it was done via a secret order […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI charged 104 people with identity theft related charges. The people were operating in South Florida. Included in the group was a former secretary for Jackson Health System – she played a key role in stealing patient records that were used in a tax fraud scheme. The group stole records on 24,000 patients in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am not sure what rock I have been hiding under, but somehow I missed this item. About two months ago, the security company Checkpoint revealed a new Android malware family called Gooligan. The malware can attack about 74% of Android phones world wide. The good news, if there is any, is that it only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hotel Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, a 4 star hotel in the Austrian Alps, decided to pay a ransom of 1,500 Euros in bitcoin after hackers broke into the hotel’s systems and locked all the guests out of their rooms. Kind of a downside of the Internet of Things. If you can unlock your hotel room […]
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