U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking. The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may recall that a hacking group called the Dark Overlord hacked into Larson Studios, a third party provider to Netflix and other studios. They stole the unreleased copies of the whole season of Orange as well as about 36 other series and movies. Now we are beginning to hear the back story and it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few days ago I wrote about a public-private partnership between the Russian spy folks and Russian hackers that was uncovered when the Feds indicted two hackers and two Russian spies. In that case, the hackers gave the Russians the data that they wanted and kept and used the rest for themselves. Now there are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an article on CNN’s web site, many traffic lights in the US are easy to hack. Earlier this summer researchers in Michigan demonstrated how easy it was to hack into the traffic lights in an undisclosed city. The traffic lights in question are made by Econolite, the largest manufacturer of traffic controls in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just read a white paper on a security vendor’s (Prevoty.com) web site and I think they really understand the problem. I have not had a chance to review their products, so I make no claims about them, but I do recommend reading the article. First a quote from the paper: Traditional security is like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an item on Govtech, The FBI is looking for a little help from businesses in their effort to bring cyber criminals to justice. Assistant AG for National Security John Carlin and FBI Director James Comey said they need more than knowing how a breach occurred. They also want to know why the bad […]
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