Today the FBI arrested the person they say leaked hundreds of classified documents on US surveillance related to the war in Ukraine. The impact of this leak may rise to the level of the damage caused by Edward Snowden in 2013. They continue to find more classified documents as the investigation continues. What is different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China has long ranked at or near the top of U.S. national security officials’ list of cyber adversaries. On Wednesday, spy agency leaders warned that China is getting even bolder and better in cyberspace. The spies say that if China believed that it was on the verge of a major conflict with us, they might launch […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember Mastodon’s 1 Million Users Last Week – Now 6 Million Last week I reported that the open source distributed alterative to Twitter, Mastodon (sorry, mammoth, I misspelled it last week) now has 6 million. While that pales before Twitter’s 200 million, the growth curve is interesting. And because it is distributed, it will be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We all know that North Korea has been funding their terrorism – and their economy – using ransomware attacks and other malware. Now they have a new way and it is pretty creative. According to an advisory from the feds, North Korean IT workers have been trying to get IT jobs in the United States […]
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