China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacker Sells 538 Million Weibo Accounts Karma is a B**tch. With all of the Chinese hacking efforts, someone is hacking back. Is it us? Not clear. In any case, the data includes information like real names, site names, location, etc. and 172 million of the 538 million records include users’ phone numbers, but not passwords. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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