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Security News Update for October 18, 2024

Now North Korea Using Fake IT Workers to Extort Employers Scams evolve. Now that the scam concept is public, North Korea is pivoting. They are extorting the companies that hire these North Koreans as IT employees after the employees steal corporate secrets. Read the details here. SURPRISE! (Not) – OpenAI Confirms Attackers use ChatGPT to […]

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Security News for the Week Ending April 2, 2021

SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 13, 2020

9 Years of AMD Processors Vulnerable to 2 New Side-Channel Attacks AMD processors from as early as 2011 to 2019 carry previously undisclosed vulnerabilities that open them to two new different side-channel attacks, according to a freshly published research. Known as “Take A Way,” the new potential attack vectors leverage the L1 data (L1D) cache […]

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Security News Bites for Week Ending August 17, 2018

Hamas Creates Fake Missile Warning App to Hack Israelis The Times of Israel is reporting that Hamas has created and was distributing a fake Code Red rocket warning app. The app, according to Clearsky Cyber Security, takes over the phone and is impossible to remove, even if the app is deleted. Once infected, the app […]

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Friday News Bites – June 15, 2018

Details Emerge on TicketFly Hack More details are coming out about the TicketFly attack.  First thing is that the web site was based on WordPress.  While WordPress is a very popular site for individuals and small businesses; using it for something as complex as a concert ticketing site is likely a mistake.  Hackers were able […]

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News Bites for Friday June 1

8 new Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Researchers have reportedly found *8* new Spectre-class vulnerabilties.  Intel has classified 4 of them high risk and 4 of them medium risk, although they are not releasing any details on them – yet.  The entire set is being referred to as Spectre Next Generation or Spectre-NG.  At least one of them […]

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