On May 26, I told city officials in Florence, Ala. their networks were hacked by a ransomware gang. Thanks, they said. We dodged a bullet. On Jun 5, ransomware was deployed. The city now says it'll pay ~$300k ransom to keep its citizens' data off the Web. https://t.co/xCe5htE0jh
WARNING: Install Latest Windows 10 Updates Immediately!
Microsoft today released patches for a severe Windows #CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) that was discovered by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Read more: https://t.co/ryOyheuDcr
#PatchTuesday#infosec
Guy in the airport waiting area talking on a cell phone (on speaker) read out his credit card number, expiration and CVV.
…and just spelled out his name.
The #FiveEyes government coalition advocated for lawful access to #encrypteddata and threatened to follow "other measures" if tech companies don't find ways to comply. By @MT_Heller https://t.co/H9S35oGlzl
My daughter went to a laser quest birthday party yesterday. She set her username to “a girl”. I asked why she didn’t pick ‘bloodstone’ or ‘skull-crusher’ and she said, “So every time I zapped a boy they’d know it was a girl that took them out.”
Proud Dad.
Former Mariposa botnet code author and Darkode crime forum founder is CTO of hacked Bitcoin mining firm NiceHash, which was robbed of ~$52M in BTC on Dec. 6. What we know so far about the investigation https://t.co/siiplwrWle