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Security News for the Week Ending March 6, 2020

Let’s Encrypt Became Let’s Revoke and Then Let’s Confuse Let’s encrypt sent out an alert early this week that they were going to revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on March 4th.  That was going to happen because of a software bug on their part which meant that they possibly issued certificates when they should not […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 14, 2020

Feds Say 4 Chinese Hackers Took Down Equifax The Department of Justice indicted 4 members of the Chinese People Liberation Army, saying that they were responsible for detecting the fact that Equifax did not patch their some of their servers and thus were easily hackable.  This, of course, means that the hack did not require […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 1, 2019

Johannesburg, South Africa Attacker Threatens Data Breach In what I think is going to be the way of the future, hackers compromised Joburg IT systems and threatened to publish data that they stole if the ransom is not paid.  As I write this, the deadline has just passed, they have not paid the ransom, the […]

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Security news for the Week Ending September 20, 2019

A New Trend?  Insurers Offering Consumers Ransomware Coverage In what may be a new trend, Mercury Insurance is now offering individuals $50,000 of ransomware insurance in case your cat videos get encrypted.  The good news is that the insurance may help you get your data back in case of an attack.  The bad news is […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 12, 2019

FBI and DHS Raid State Driver’s License Database Photos The FBI and DHS/ICE have been obtaining millions of photos from state DMV driver’s license databases.  The FBI and DHS have do not feel that they have ask permission to do this. The FBI conducts 4,000  facial recognition searches a  month.  While the searches might be […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 5, 2019

This is What Spies Do It has come out that western (read one or more of the five eyes countries) inserted malware into Yandex (Russia’s equivalent of Google) in order to steal administrative credentials.  The purpose was, apparently, to read emails of interest to the western spies.  We need to understand that we do it […]

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