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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ATLANTA HIT BY RANSOMWARE ATTACK Atlanta, GA is the most recent city to get hit by a ransomware attack – on Thursday, March 22. Cities seem to be a hot target, likely because they are big, public and behind the private sector when it comes to IT and cyber security (One of Atlanta’s Councilman said “As […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meltdown and Spectre, the twin vulnerabilities affecting Intel and many other processors, has been a moving target. Patches followed by “unpatches” when those patches caused computers to reboot randomly. Then there were the software patches that slowed down computers by from 5% to 30%. The process of mitigating these vulnerabilities has been way more complicated […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The twins bugs of Meltdown and Spectre are a once in a career event for security pros. Most bugs are found quickly – these have been around for 20+ years. Most bugs affect one hardware platform like Intel or AMD or are not related to any specific hardware device. Spectre affects every modern computing processor […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tech Crunch is reporting that Intel told customers about the Meltdown and Spectre flaws before the public announcement, but they did not tell the U.S. Government about it. Most of the time, it is the other way around. The U.S. Government knows about a flaw but doesn’t tell the company who can do something about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week news was leaked of a problem with Intel processors built since 1995. The problem – they could be hacked to possibly leak important stuff like all of your passwords. It then came out that Microsoft and the Linux community were building patches and they would be released soon. Apple said that they released […]
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