Aluminum Giant Norsk Hydro was hit with a ransomware attack this week. The attack has forced the company to shut down several plants and take other other plants offline to stop the spread of the attack. Other plants were operating in “manual” mode. The Norwegian company employs 35,000 employees in 40 countries. They report that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]City of Del Rio, Texas Reverts to the 1950s – Paper and Pen – After Ransomware Attack Update: The city says that it cannot issue utility bills which means that it won’t get utility revenue from residents. Del Rio, Texas, on the Texas-Mexico border was hit by a ransomware attack this week and as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably figured out that it is a cryptocurrency (AKA Bitcoin) wallet. But there is something that makes this bitcoin wallet different from the tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets out there in the wild. Making a payment to this Bitcoin wallet may classify you a terrorist and subject you to arrest and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco Will Eliminate Hard Coded Passwords One Per Month It seems like every patch cycle, Cisco admits to another app that has an undocumented hard coded password. I have lost track of how many of them they have removed so far, but the number is scary large. What is more scary is that I bet […]
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