The hacker must have a method in starting an attack like Dynamic Denial of Service (DDOS). in the last few days. the one which used hacked cameras and DVRs (Brian Krebs story) in attacking many Internet properties. Im sure you have seen the many media stories about this DDOS attack on various media (including Computerworld) … Read more
Everyone listening to the news should know by now that Yahoo’s email service has been hacked. CBSNews story: {Yahoo Confirms Massive hack of 500 million accounts, blames “state actor”} In Yahoo’s terms of services section DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: 19. b. YAHOO AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTY … Read more
Unfortunately another flaw in software for which we expect to have _none_, at least in security software written in ZDNet¹ post: This just in 7/28/16 story by Cnet – http://www.cnet.com/news/big-security-bug-fixed-by-lastpass-password-manager/ Looks like Lastpass fixed another bug quickly… Tavis Ormandy (a Google Project Zero hacker) used a couple of tweets to point out security flaws in Lastpass LastPass is … Read more
Ok it happened as some predicted last year: A botnet was found¹ (a collection of computers or in this case devices that are controlled by another computer) controlling a number of IoT (Internet of Things). These IoT devices were then told to attack a website thus causing a DDoS (Dynamic Denial of Service). The website … Read more
Brian Krebs- KrebsonSecurity¹ has a story of Cici’s Pizza with a data breach on June 3rd . This credit Card breach story is interesting but not what I want to discuss. Instead let’s discuss “Todd”‘s response in the comments 1st response: So obviously Todd wrote this response as an immediate reflex action and does … Read more