Collaborate Disseminate
What has been tagged the largest DDoS attack ever disclosed slammed into the servers of software development site GitHub at 17:21 UTC last Wednesday. Continue reading World’s largest DDoS attack thwarted in minutes
Don’t dilly-dally. If you haven’t already properly secured the Amazon Web Services S3 servers (known as “buckets”) storing your sensitive data in the cloud then your business has no time to lose.
Continue reading 1 in 50 publicly readable Amazon buckets are also writable – and that’s a data disaster waiting to happen
The number of exploit kit attacks is, slowly but surely, going down, and malware peddlers are turning towards more reliable tactics such as spam, phishing, and targeting specific, individual vulnerabilities. That’s the good news. The bad news is … Continue reading The advent of GDPR could fuel extortion attempts by criminals
Digital extortion has evolved into the most successful criminal business model in the current threat landscape, and Trend Micro researchers predict that it will continue to grow rampant because it’s cheap, easy to commit, and many times the victi… Continue reading How to prepare for the future of digital extortion
Sending an application letter to your prospective employer is a good idea, an extortion letter, not so much Continue reading “Give me a job or else!” approach fails to land IT job
The alleged extortionist, still facing charges, reposted the image to shame sites multiple times. Why didn’t Facebook use hashes to stop it? Continue reading Facebook settles after 14-year-old sues over nude image reposting
There’s no end in sight for ransomware and, based on what we’ve seen this year, these threats will become even more aggressive. Worse still, hackers have started incorporating extortion into other types of attacks. Ransomware pushers have h… Continue reading Brace for Hybrid Threats and Extortion-Fueled Attacks Next Year
Clarksons, the global shipping firm, has turned the tables on criminal hackers who attempted to extort a ransom payment after stealing confidential information from the company’s network.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Shipping giant refuses to pay hackers ransom after data stolen
Hackers looking for a payout have hit the Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) system, defacing the agency website, erasing data from some of its servers, and demanding money to stop the attack and not do further damage. The attack According to the Sacr… Continue reading Hackers hit Sacramento transit system, demand money to stop attack
It sounds funny, but remember: if hackers can be hacked, then so can you, if you aren’t careful Continue reading Hacking site hacked by hackers