The autumn of 2018 brought something new to the general alert system of the United States. While the country’s old Emergency Alert System (EAS) that’s been in place for decades is still in use, a process for using text message alerts was added. The first test of
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#cryptocurrency Sure, everyone loves a funny cat video, but if you receive a video file (packed in zip archive) sent by someone through Facebook messenger, think twice before opening it. That video may just be a cryptocurrency mining bot. Discovered by researchers from security firm Trend Micro, this new
Read more →#hacked Bitcoin buyers beware. While the price of the popular cryptocurrency just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours, that has made it an even more attractive target for hackers. One site, NiceHash, the largest Bitcoin mining marketplace, has recently fallen victim to hacking. For those
Read more →#hacked Shut up and drive. More like, “Shut up and don’t tell users we were hacked.” It has been discovered the ride service with the already questionable reputation, Uber, suffered a massive data breach in 2016. What’s worse, they paid the hackers $100,000 to keep quiet. According to
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Data breaches were never contemplated as a fortune but some of them are palatable as compared to others. We can digest that our servant got hacked instead of our banks. And the most troublesome breaches would be related to our personal information which involves insurance records, medical
Read more →#hacked Someone (or many groups of someones) has it out for US businesses. Another week and another breach in big business for the country. It was announced that ‘Big Four’ firm Deloitte is the latest to fall victim. You may know Deloitte as one of the largest private
Read more →#hacked It seems that word of new breaches have been released almost daily as of late. The latest, coming on the back on the devastating Equifax breach, is news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was hacked last year. Gulp. The SEC is the top U.S. market’s regulator.
Read more →#hacked- big time. Chances are you’ve heard about the Equifax breach, which led to the compromise of 143 million US consumer’s data including the names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and in some cases, drivers license numbers. In the wake of the breach, we’ve
Read more →#wikileaks Wikileaks is in the news for more reasons than 1 this week. As expected, they’ve added another hacking tool to the growing list of Vault 7 leaks. The latest, ‘AngelFire’ is a Windows hacking tool used to gain persistent remote access. But, prior to that leak,
Read more →#hacked Blackmail is coming. In a bizarre string of events, HBO hit show Game of Thrones is at the center of breaches and episode leaks, among other pieces to this growing hacker’s puzzle. Initially, unknown hackers claimed to have 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO and
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