A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The Love Bug virus is 20 years old. It was also known as ILOVEYOU because it spewed itself out in emails with those three words, jammed together as one, in the subject line. This was one of the first mass mailing worms I ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Web hosting behemoth GoDaddy just filed a data breach notification with the US state of California.
On May 4, 2020, GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest website hosting providers, disclosed that the SSH credentials of approximately 28,000 GoDaddy hosting accounts were compromised by an unauthorized attacker.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.With much of the world shifting to working from home due to public health concerns with COVID-19, video conferencing is booming. Businesses, and even schools, are turning to platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google hangouts and other technologies to stay connected.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Next week, WyzGuys Cybersecurity Blog is having its own Scam Week, and will be focusing on scams we see happening to our clients all the time. A couple are listed below.
There’s an attachment that you are “strongly recommended to read” on account of coronavirus infections in your area. Don’t open ...
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Last month I read the book Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers, by Andy Greenberg, senior writer for Wired magazine. If you want to understand how cyber-war has changed the face of military operations in the 21st century, this book explains everything. This book has put the threat ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday said that an infection by an unidentified ransomware strain forced the shutdown of a natural-gas pipeline for two days.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: February 14, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Defense (DoD) have identified the following malware variants used by the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government ...
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Or The Strange Case of Jeff Bezos’ IPhone and the Saudi Crown PrinceThe evidence says that the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) engineered a way to hack Jeff Bezos’ cell phone. Just why MBS would be interested in Jeff, Jeff’s phone, or Jeff’s life is an interesting question, with surprising answers.
It seems that MBS invited Jeff Bezos to a private party, and during the course of ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The telltale signs are all there… but if you’re in a hurry, this Netflix scam passes the “visual appeal” test.
National Tax Security Awareness Week is December 2–6
Original release date: November 19, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released an article announcing that ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: August 23, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning about a new email scam in which malicious cyber actors send unsolicited emails to taxpayers from fake (i.e., spoofed) IRS email addresses. The emails contain a link to a spoofed IRS.gov website that displays fake details ...
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