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Category Archives: Security Blog
Uber Hires Charlie and Chris, the Famous Vehicle Hackers
As Uber grows, they are looking at further developing autonomous, self-driving cars, and they hired the famous vehicle hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, to hopefully make those vehicles strongly hacker resilient. Car hacking is very possible and the dangers … Continue reading
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Tagged car hacking, Charlie Miller, Chris Valasek, uber
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Business Email Compromise Leads to $737,000 Transfer to China
The FBI classifies “phishing that leads to loss” as Business Email Compromise (BEC). In a recently released story that closely matches the BEC hack in Omaha I wrote about back in February, another company fell victim to a spearphishing attack … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercrime, FBI, fraud, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, vishing
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Third U.S. Federal Circuit Court Allows FTC to Sue You
If you have poor infosecurity practices and you know it, the FTC now (as of 8/25/2015) has the power to sue you. Wyndham Wordwide, whom have licensed their brand name through 90 independently owned hotels, has been hacked and had … Continue reading
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Tagged breach, data breaches, ftc, third party, Third Party Assessments, wyndam, wyndham
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SpearPhish Your Phamily and Phriends!
I tried InfoSec Institute’s Phishing service, and here is how it played out! Over the past couple of days, while having some discussions regarding social engineering at work, I stumbled across this service. The InfoSec Institute provides phishing as a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, aware, education and awareness, fun, learning, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Your Data From Ashley Madison Was Leaked
A new phishing scam, to out cheaters, is being played out by bad actors. A phishing scam like the one below is being sent in mass in both phishing and spear phishing. Unfortunately, your data was leaked in the recent … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Ashley Madison, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Google/Boston Dynamics Humanoid Robots
Atlas is a humanoid robot. In the video, you can see it walking through the woods. Since they are Google owned, I wonder if they are running a version of Android… haha
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Tagged 2015, android, Boston Dynamics, Google, killer robots
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Remotely Controlling a Jeep
Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, frontier vehicle hackers, are at it again, this time they remotely controlled a jeep from about 10 miles away. Uconnect, an Internet-connected computer feature in hundreds of thousands of Fiat Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks, … Continue reading
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Tagged CANBus, car hacking, Charlie Miller, Chris Valasek, Chrysler, Dodge Jeep, insurance, underwriters, Wireless CarJacking
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Adulterer Site, Ashley Madison – Breached
The ‘find some secret sex’ website, Ashley Madison, was breached and 37-40 million records were leaked. Bad guys, making themselves known as the Impact Team, are looking to blackmail/extort all targets. Amid the customer data, the hackers also leaked maps … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Ashley Madison, breach, Impact Team, privacy
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Hacking Team = Hacked Team
Hacking Team is an Italian company that develops the legal-ish spyware called the RCS (remote control systems) and supposedly sells it to governments as a surveillance devices. Bruce Schneier, security legend, says, “Hacking Team is a pretty sleazy company, selling … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Schneier, governments, hacking team, RCS, remote control systems
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OMG Skynet?!
lol, I hope she doesn’t respond.
