According to reports, police in 20 countries arrested 70 people in mid-July, saying they were part of a group that traded in all sorts of nifty stuff (if you are a hacker) like hacking tools, zero day exploits, stolen credit cards, and spamming and botnet services. Assuming that there are 800 groups like this and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is the week for car hacks – because it is the week before the hacker conference Defcon. In this case, for about $100, a researcher has created a black box that, while no where as dramatic as the Jeep hack, is still unnerving. The black box is a WiFi hotspot. It intercepts the communications […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Following on from yesterday’s United Airlines post, both Kaspersky and Symantec are reporting about a hacking group that is not interested in stealing credit cards. Instead, they are stealing corporate secrets for financial gain. Whether they are using them for insider trading or selling them to the highest bidder, the group, whom Kaspersky calls Wild […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are so used to breaches in the news that we are blind to the likely way larger number of breaches that never make the news. In this case, United Airlines was hacked, likely by the same Chinese group that hacked OPM and Anthem. Bloomberg is reporting that the attackers stole manifests, among other data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With Windows 10 (and previously, Windows 8.1 phone), Microsoft has created a way for you to share WiFi passwords without revealing them – sort of. In my opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of other security professionals, this is a complete security disaster. There are some things that you can do to mitigate […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the Ashley Madison breach, CNN read through the Ashley Madison license agreement. Here are a few tidbits from their reading of the agreement. 1. They can sell your personally identifiable information in connection with the sale of the business or sale of the assets. If this was Facebook, we might not care. If we […]
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