Krebs on Security is reporting a new method of extracting money from bank accounts. So far, this has been reported as being accomplished in eastern Europe and Russia, but there is certainly no reason why this cannot be accomplished in the U.S. The group starts by sending spear phishing emails to bank employees that look […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: After a 9 hour outage, North Korea has reappeared on the Internet. Most folks are saying this does not look like the work of the NSA but rather the work of a hacker, but of course, who knows. Multiple sources are reporting that all 4 of North Korea’s Internet connections are totally down. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not exactly an “Internet Of Things” issue, it points out how long it takes to get things fixed and how the tail of a bug can live on forever. In the case of the Internet of things, people rarely patch their refrigerator, so that bug will live on until the refrigerator is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has released an alert describing the malware that took Sony apart pretty effectively. Without going into a lot of detail, here is the high level overview: The malware takes advantage of Windows SMB (server message block) protocols that are common to all versions of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Washington Technology, hackers have gone after Keypoint Systems, a contractor for The Office of Personnel Management that does background investigations for security clearances. If anyone has ever had a Department of Defense or other government security clearance, the information that you provide is extremely detailed. For example, for the DoD, the SF-86 form […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After 9/11, Congress passed TRIA, the terrorism risk insurance act. They did this after insurance companies paid out more than $40 billion in claims from 9/11 and reinsurers – the companies that backstop the insurance companies – withdrew from the market. When the reinsurance market dried up, insurers stopped covering terrorism claims. The result of […]
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