A few months ago Apple and the FBI seemed to be locked in a fight to the death over a request to unlock a phone belonging to the now dead San Bernadino shooter. The FBi attempted to use the 18th century All Writs Act to get Apple to write new software that undermined the security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently, Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) was hit with a massive denial of service attack. The site went down – hard – and was down for days. His Internet Service Provider kicked him off, permanently. The attack threw over 600 gigabits per second of traffic at the site. There are very few web sites that could withstand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if things weren’t bad enough for Marissa Mayer and Yahoo after the announcement of losing 500 million user records and the very negative article in the NY Times last week about how they treated security, now there is a new revelation. Supposedly, Yahoo wrote custom software to search all emails in real time for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why do hackers steal medical and health insurance information and what do they do with it? Why does your personal health information sell for 25 to 50 times what credit card information sells for? The first answer? Your credit card information is typically toast within 30 days of the first use, sometimes sooner. And of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way. After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer; it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The DarkOverlord is a hacking group that came to light midyear when it announced it was selling 9+ million patient records on the dark web for around a half million dollars in Bitcoin. That breach apparently includes Socials, dates of birth and other information. Now they have moved on to financial services with a […]
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