ThyssenKrupp announced this week that they were targeted by cyber thieves. They said the attack was “massive”, but have not given any specifics of the attack. We seem to be seeing that a lot lately. Hey everyone, we’ve been hacked but we are not going to say what got taken. It is a bit strange. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, I will give you the punchline upfront. According to Tech Crunch, Robert Stephens, a tech industry veteran, put a WiFi connected security camera on the Internet and was hacked in …. 98 Seconds. In 98 seconds it is highly unlikely that you could even get logged in to the camera, never mind change […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 – […]
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