Last month the Mirai botnet took down Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other web sites by compromising cheap Chinese web cams and weaponizing them. While the attack was very interesting and could have been a lot worse, I attributed it to it being a cheap Chinese web cam. Hundreds of thousands of them. Now an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting in mid November, someone, possibly Iran, wiped many computers at a number of Saudi government agencies, including the Saudi Civil Aviation Agency . A total of 6 agencies were attacked; 4 were compromised; 2 agencies repelled the attack. The attack was made to look identical to an attack attributed to Iran in 2012 where […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While we focused during the election on possibly classified emails on Hillary Clinton’s mail server, in Europe they have their own version. Shodan, the IoT search engine turned up on an Internet connected disk drive that was not password protected. While Trump says that Clinton should be thrown in jail, in Europe they said it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ever wonder how much a hacker charges to hack someone’s email for you? Wonder no more. Dell Secureworks, now a separate publicly traded company, publishes an annual report on the cost of crime. They look at both Russian speaking and English speaking underground markets. So here it is. Place your orders soon 🙂 $129 – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is common mythology that Bitcoin users are thieves, hackers and tax cheats. The IRS doesn’t like tax cheats. The IRS is asking a court for a “John Doe” summons asking Coinbase, a Bitcoin exchange, to turn over information on any customers that match a certain criteria. The summons applies as long as the government […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Apparently Paypal was one of the companies affected by some of these OAuth security holes and they just released a fix (Dec 1,2016) for a bug that would allow hackers to steal OAuth tokens from payment apps of third party developers. Many web sites encourage you to sign on with your social media userid […]
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