According to Buzzfeed, nine days after Hillary Clinton had won big on Super Tuesday, the Russians launched their cyber attack on her campaign. The Russians sent malicious emails to all of her senior campaign staff. The emails looked like standard Google GMail emails alerting to suspicious activity on their accounts and asked them to click […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You’ve probably heard about credit card skimmers that hackers attach to everything from gas pumps to ATMs to self checkout terminals at grocery stores, all in an effort to steal your credit card info. As more stores go to chip based credit cards where stealing the information off the stripe won’t let hackers use that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Vera Bradley recently got a visit from the FBI, but it was not to purchase one of their colorful diaper bags. Instead the FBI came to tell Vera Bradley that they had been hacked. Between late July and late September, hackers were busy at work inside Vera Bradley’s 112 stores and 44 factory outlets – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are combining the Internet of Things with a 12 year old open source software bug and creating a potential mess. Last week tens of thousands of hacked Internet of (in-secure) Things devices created a 600 gigabit per second attack against a security blogger’s web site and just after that, these devices created a terabit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All 12 channels France’s TV5 Monde were taken off the air one night in April 2015. The company had just launched a new channel that day and were out celebrating when a flood of text messages told the director-general that all 12 stations had gone dark. Attackers, claimed to be from the Cyber Caliphate. Since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the Cloud has an amazing number of advantages, it is important to remember that it is hard to see inside a cloud and what you can’t see could hurt you. I was recently involved in responding to a potential email compromise where the company was using cloud based email. While this cloud based email […]
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