City of Columbus Warns Victims After Saying No Data Was Taken The city admitted that data was stolen including information in prosecutor’s database. The city says that they will help victims who are now being victimized again and whose lives may be in danger due to the city’s poor security practices. The mayor said that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Rolls back Decision to Kill Third Party Cookies Firefox and Safari, along with some other smaller browsers already block third party cookies by default. Google said that they would do the same. Google now says that phasing out third party cookies will hurt their revenue stream, uh, will impact online advertising, so they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What if the attack on the Kiev power station last Christmas which killed power to a goodly chunk for the city was just a dry run? For what? Security researchers at ESET and Dragos analyzed the malware used in the attack and say it represents a dangerous advancement in attacks on critical infrastructure. Like Stuxnet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is it possible that North Korea used stolen NSA hacking tools to infect medical devices at U.S. hospitals? Forbes says, yes it is. When the WannaCry ransomware spread out of control last week infecting 48 hospital trusts in the UK and unnamed medical facilities in the U.S. for the most part U.S. businesses were not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Industrial Control Systems (ICS) run everything from waste water to nuclear power. Unfortunately, they are on pretty shaky ground. During the cold war, Ronald Reagan’s CIA convinced the Russians to use American control software to manage a gas pipeline in Siberia. Unfortunately for the Russians, the CIA placed a few time bombs in the software […]
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