DailyPost 1693 COLONIAL PIPELINE – ARE WE RANSOMED FOREVER? We live in times, which looks so organized on the face of it, it gives you a feeling that everything is under control and that we have hard hitting firepower to retort when the crisis hits. Unfortunately, that is only a democratic perception we have to …
DailyPost 1628 150,000 SECURITY CAMERAS HACKED Camera, camera everywhere! What difference has it already made to your life? After data being stripped of the owners, is video the next target. For the Cyber world everything is data. Notwithstanding the audacious hacks across the globe, lip service remains the name of the game in this area. One …
DailyPost 1623 FIRE SALE ”A Fire Sale is an all-out cyberwarfare attack that performs a three-stage systematic attack on a nation’s computer infrastructure.” Just because something has never happened does not mean that it would never happen. Commercial aircrafts being used as missiles hitting Twin Towers in a suicide attack is as weird as it can …
Daily Post 1458 FIRST EVER RANSOMWARE DEATH! Things keep on getting crazier in the COVID-19 days, some related to the pandemic and some unconnected, nonetheless fall in the category of one of its kind. When an ambulance carrying a patient was reaching the University Hospital is Düsseldorf on Sept 11 night, it was sent to …
Daily Post 1362 RANSOMWARE’S NEW VALUABLE HOSTAGE The rules of the game are changing in this corona infected world. So to say the world has been infected. Though not directly connected, rules of ransomware game is changing to be more paying as it turns out to be more damaging with every passing major attack. Ransomware …
Daily Post 1359 CYBER ATTACK SPARKED OUTAGES A cyber hack / breach, outage of humungous proportions is the last thing one would like to get into when most of things being treated normal have already got into the ”outaged” state. On Monday, sudden and wide ranging outages in online communications services in the US seems …
Daily Post 1353 ANOTHER RANSOMWARE SHUTDOWN The woes does not seem to end this season. With COVID-19 and George Floyd protests engulfing the US, a cyber security attack in certainly not a welcome incident. It is small incident compared to other two of gigantic proportions, nonetheless it seems to be the beginning of another round …
Daily Post 1342 FINALLY THE DARK NET! The dark net is the safe haven of the hackers, all sorts of bad guys at the underbelly of the internet, from the drug pedlars to money launderers to mercenary killers, running their own underground economy. The tentacles of Google does not extend to this part of the …
Daily Post 1338 RUSSIA’s MILITARY INTELLIGENCE ARM – GRU Not getting any news of hacking relating to GRU in a season of hacking was quite surprising. They have been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier. The vulnerability is in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent which mostly runs on Unix-type operating …
Daily Post 1337 STATE BACKED HACKING – GOOGLE DISCLOSURE Hacking is here to stay and it would keep readapting itself depending on the situation and context and / or where the funding came from. Close to the heels of ransomware attack reaching 80% of the total this year, the disturbing trend Google sees is an …
Daily Post 1267 RANSOMWARE’s NEW BLACKMAIL TACTICS Ransomware attacks across the globe has been taking out the sails of the smooth sailing IT and other enterprises for quite sometime now. The methodologies has been wide and varied starting from social engineering and finally ending up encrypting data and making a neat sum out of it. …
