China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Covid-19 Driven Online Shopping Encouraging More Skimming Attacks Since crooks go where the money is and since we are all doing a lot online shopping during the shelter in place directives, the crooks put two and two together to come up with an attack strategy. Malwarebytes says that they are seeing a 26% increase in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Breaches Gone Wild – Very Wild Since EU’s GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018 – about 18 months ago – 160,000 Breaches have been reported to EU authorities. A calculator will tell you that means that people are reporting between 250 and 300 security incidents A DAY! If you think that magically, 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of weeks ago it was a Managed Service Provider in Denver. A few weeks before that, it was one in Wisconsin. This week it is Irvine, CA based Synoptek with more than 1,100 customers including state and local governments, financial services and healthcare. Their web site says that they did more than $100 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
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