REvil Makes Monkeys out of Kaseya Customers

Over the long weekend, a huge ransomware attack emerged. Kaseya seems to have been the common component.
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One Medical: Sorry-not-Sorry for Leaking your Personal Info

Primary care med-tech firm One Medical sent email to countless customers, with hundreds of other customer email addresses visible in the To: field.
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LinkedIn Leaks 93% of Users’ Data—Refuses Blame for Breach

LinkedIn is fighting a crescendo of criticism over a huge data breach. But when is a breach not a “breach”?
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SafeDollar Stablecoin not Safe nor Stable: Hack Sends Value to ZERO

SafeDollar, a crypto token that’s pegged to the U.S. dollar, crashed this week. The team claim it had been hacked.
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Did your WD My Book NAS get Wiped? Put a Brave Face on It

A 2019 vulnerability is being exploited to remotely wipe WD My Book Live NAS devices, by Eastern-European malefactors.
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In Memoriam: John McAfee, 1945–2021. R.I.P.

John David McAfee took his own life yesterday, in a Spanish prison.
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Ransomware and the Tax Code’s Perverse Incentive

Ransomware payments are deductible, say tax experts: That’s the shocking finding from a recent investigation.
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Cops Cop Cl0p Ransomware Gang (or Maybe Not?)

The National Police of Ukraine is crowing about arresting eight alleged ransomware scrotes from the Clop gang.
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Microsoft’s Legal Head: U.S. must Stop Secret Gag Orders

Microsoft president and CLO Brad Smith says secretly subpoenaing data from cloud providers—blocking them from telling customers—must stop.
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Who, Us? Linux Root Bug Quietly Added 7 Years Ago

A nasty vulnerability in most Linux distributions is raising eyebrows among the penguinistas.
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