Maybe we should call it a dumpster fire, but whether we call it a shipwreck or a dumpster fire, it is a mess. According to pen testers, shipping industry security is where mainstream IT was years ago. The pen testers say that the attacks are TRIVIAL to execute an easy to mitigate against. These ships […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Smart cars are very in these days. You can start it remotely, lock or unlock the doors, even find out where the car is. We also saw a smart car get taken over – turning the steering wheel 90 degrees while the car was going 60 MPH and controlling the gas and brakes. But what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are combining the Internet of Things with a 12 year old open source software bug and creating a potential mess. Last week tens of thousands of hacked Internet of (in-secure) Things devices created a 600 gigabit per second attack against a security blogger’s web site and just after that, these devices created a terabit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently, Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) was hit with a massive denial of service attack. The site went down – hard – and was down for days. His Internet Service Provider kicked him off, permanently. The attack threw over 600 gigabits per second of traffic at the site. There are very few web sites that could withstand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lizard Stresser, the “service” that came to fame on Christmas Day 2014 when it knocked Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s xBox web sites off line, has never gone away. Now it has a new claim to fame. The claimed purpose of the software was to allow web site owners to stress test their web sites under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the world of a connected home (or any other building), when you sell it or buy it, you need to consider the security and privacy implications. Does the former owner still have access to the security cameras? HVAC? Alarm system? Are the smart devices not so smart anymore? Have they EVER been patched? Are […]
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