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Security News for the Week Ending January 8, 2021

Britain Says Assange Cannot be Extradited Julian Assange, a long time thorn in the backside of some folks in the US government, cannot be extradited to the US, a British court says. The court said that while he probably can get a fair trial in the US, the court system in the US is unlikely […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 30, 2020

Louisiana National Guard Called in to Help Local Election Officials According to tips, the state of Louisiana had to call out the National Guard after some number of small government offices across the state were hit by ransomware. Experts say the tools have the hallmarks of the North Koreans, so all of the major attackers […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 19, 2020

Akamai Sees Largest DDoS Attack Ever Cloudflare says that one of its customers was hit with a 1.44 terabit per second denial of service attack. A second attack topped 500 megabits per second. The used a variety of amplification techniques that required some custom coding on Akamai’s part to control, but the client was able […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 5, 2020

Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]

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Security news for the Week Ending May 24, 2019

SalesForce Gives Users Access To All of Your Company’s Data In what can only be called an Oops, SalesForce deployed a script last Friday that gave users of certain parts of SalesForce access to all of the data that a company had on the system.  The good news is that it didn’t show you anyone […]

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