Of the Wired story¹ about FBI agent using Ukrainian hacker Popov to do their bidding there are many storylines: A criminal hacker wanted to turn and become legitimate – making money in the USA. FBI abused the hacker from Day1 for 3 years The FBI hierarchy did not know what they really had, but a … Read more
A great write-up¹ of how the HackingTeam and more were hacked (I recommend that you download it as it may likely be gone soon enough) – 04/19. Let’s do a quick review of his (antisec) document and remind you that the Italian Company name is http://www.hackingteam.it/ Some enterprising media or bloggers have changed the name to … Read more
What is the worst nightmare of IT admins and users alike? Losing your data – with no backup. So what did we learn? Sometimes it is not a hacker with some mechanism to get you to fork over money…In the following story some people are setting their phones to 1970, for which the phone or … Read more
So you went ahead and took our advice¹,²,³ – (and many others advice). Spent good money($$) and got a nice NGFW(Next Gen FireWall). How about the PA – Palo Alto? So we gave the advice to get a NGFW last year and early this year in our posts. The PA may be one of the best … Read more
IRS tax time — April 15th right?? Actually employers have to do taxes year-round and the “sophisticated” nature of the IRS causes them to issue 4 or 6 digit PIN numbers. Well the hackers know this so they buy some of your stolen data (from previous heists) on the Darknet¹&². Now hackers have some of your … Read more
