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]General Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, said that cyber espionage is the greatest transfer of wealth in history. In 2012 when he made that statement, the the value of cyber industrial espionage on an annual basis was $338 billion. Per year. 5 years later I am sure that number is greater. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google and Uber are both working on self driving cars, for different reasons. Google has had a strong lead in the game – until. Google’s self driving car subsidiary called Waymo says it has spent millions of dollars perfecting the technology for self driving cars. A former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski, started the self driving […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you may be aware that earlier this year the FBI outed two major New York based law firms – Cravath, Swaine & Moore (500 attorneys) and Weil, Gotshal & Manges (1,000 attorneys) – as being hacked. But they did not give a lot of details. Now some of the details are coming out, […]
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