This is one of my favorite unofficial holidays (the other being Sys Admin Day). Here is a link to the official website. Looks like there is a tee-shirt available. Actually, there is quite a bit of cool pirate swag, so check it out.
Is your email address one of the 711 million emails that are being used by the Onliner spam-bot? I checked my email address at Have I Been Pwned and found it on the list. You can click through the link and see if yours is on the Onliner list, or part of some other breach.
Onliner ...
Continue Reading →Rail fans, this story from the Smithsonian Magazine is a great yarn about how a marketing stunt gone wrong turned out to be one of the great railroad marketing schemes of all time.
George Crush had two steam locomotives crash into each other at 50 miles per hour, while 40,000 spectators watched. What could possibly go wrong? Read the full story at the link above.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.We will start with the good stuff for a change. Talk Like A Pirate Day is my second favorite unofficial Holiday. Check out the official website. Check out the cool pirate swag and order yourself a pirate hoodie or tee shirt.
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WireX is a new botnet that runs on hijacked and compromised Android phones. A bot-net is a collection of compromised devices that can be coordinated by the hijacker to work together on a certain task. It might be bit-coin mining, or password cracking, or other tasks that require a lot of processing power. This bot-net, like last year’s Mirai ...
Last Friday we covered some of the security issues travelers can face when staying at a hotel. Today we are going to look at air travel – specifically the bad things that can happen to you if you carelessly discard or foolishly post a picture online of your airline boarding pass.
For some reason, people like to post images of their boarding passes ...
Continue Reading →The Equifax breach has been all over the news this weekend, and it should be. This is worse than they are telling us. It most certainly DOES affect you, if you are adult and have ever purchased a car or opened a credit card account. Don’t wait to be told you are a victim. Assume you are a victim.
In a world where we are all suffering from “breach fatigue,” having suffered through dozens if not hundreds of these revelations about ...
Continue Reading →From Pinterest – Is this really misspelled, or just leet speak for Beam Me Up?
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that any new way of DDoSing will reveal that there are a huge number of undefended devices online.
We haven’t looked at the sorry state of hotel security for a while, but we have done articles on hotel locks, and hotel business center computers before. The Naked Security blog recently published a story about the Russian hacker collective known as Fancy Bear, and their involvement in the use of the leaked NSA exploit ...
