It seems hackers will take advantage of any major news story or world event to launch their attacks. At a time of heightened fear, your employees’ email and social media accounts are flooded with news reports, comments, videos, and links about the virus. Unfortunately, cyber criminals are exploiting fears to phish your users, hack their systems, or deliver malware. Here are … [Read more...]
University Hijacked by Vending Machines
According to Network World, an unnamed university’s vending machines, smart light bulbs and 5,000 other IoT devices were recently hijacked. Sounds fishy, huh? As it turned out, the attack on the school's internal network was actually caused by a series of seafood-related DNS requests that appeared every fifteen minutes. This story comes from a preview of Verizon’s 2017 Data … [Read more...]
Drone Skyjacking – WSWiR Episode 87
NSA Botnet, Windows 0day, and Bitcoin Robberies It's time for our regular Information Security (Infosec) summary video. If you want to hear about all the latest network and computer security news from one quick and easy source, this video is for you. This week's episode comes a bit late, but I will return to the Friday schedule this week. In this episode, I talk about the NSA … [Read more...]
