Do you wonder what makes these guys who attack us every day tick? the McAfee Article on the “growth” industry http://www.networkworld.com/article/2911167/security0/cyber-extortion-a-growth-industry.html Personally I have bumped into a few instances of this phenomena(extortion and cryptolocker): As well as phone extortion artists After infecting the computer they have you call them and then … Read more
The question should be “When will I get Hacked?” Internet Storm center went to Threat level Yellow today: Internet Storm Center threat status: (this morning on 17th threat level went back to Green) – threat Activity died down fortunately and enough of us are patching. The reason it went yellow for a day is … Read more
The AC5300 Ultra WiFi router looks “Ultra” and new. Looks interesting right? lots of new specs and capabilities. Now let’s check out security researcher at /dev/TTYS0 So, while Dlink was busy with their marketing campaign and trying to sell more routers with flashy products and images (after a certain engineering effort), the security researcher … Read more
ISIL is defacing web Sites using WordPress vulnerabilities http://www.ic3.gov/media/2015/150407-1.aspx ic3=Internet Crime Complaint Center recommendation is to update your WordPress website as much as possible when necessary: check the following sites: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid, http://cve.mitre.org/index.html, https://www.us-cert.gov/ for vulnerabilities and update your site as needed. In practicality it means updating your WordPress site as the plugins are updated … Read more
The following news story highlights stolen Uber email accounts which are worth $1 on the dark net (the criminal bazaar on the Internet where criminals buy and sell their wares) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/stolen-uber-accounts-sale-1-dark-net-article-1.2167072 (Image from Nypost. {A user on AlphaBay is selling log in credentials for $1 and a user on ThinkingForward-another dark web marketplace-is selling them … Read more