Reflare America

03/24/2023

🧐 Cyber is increasingly becoming a political weapon.

An FBI investigation into alleged unauthorised accesses of local voter databases is ongoing and members of the Democratic Party have requested the FNI to look into possible American involvement.

03/23/2023

🇪🇨 Thanks to this data leak, some Ecuadorian citizens now consider the capirote as the last line of identity protection.

Two researchers associated with the company vpnMentor contacted ZDNet claiming that they had found an unsecured database containing personal information on almost every citizen of Ecuador.

03/22/2023

☎️ Ring ring?

While this incident ultimately was not the result of an attack, it still teaches us several important lessons.

03/21/2023

👨‍💻 "And the award for the Most Predictable Password goes to...."

03/20/2023

🛹 The holiday residence of Mr. J Assange - professional skateboarder.

While there has been no confirmation that the leaks are authentic, there are no obvious signs to discredit them either. It is highly unlikely that the entire leak is fabricated.

03/17/2023

👧 When kids get up to no good.

According to Reuters, a 16 year old juvenile was arrested in Melbourne after the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) referred a breach of Apple systems to the Australian Federal Police.

03/16/2023

📺 The increase in cyber security coverage has seen a surge in demand for H&M's Classic Black Hoodies.

Cyber security has spent most of its existence as an afterthought. Until only a few years ago most companies and governments attempted to secure their infrastructure and software with dedicated teams of little authority.

03/15/2023

🧐 Having difficulties with your sub? Control+Alt+Delete.

The crux of the matter appears to be that Trident class nuclear submarines are rumored to use the now out of support Windows XP operating system.

03/14/2023

📉 Reputational damage is often quite difficult to quantify. However, you will see it in your balance sheet when it happens.

In the Court of Public Perception, the size and scope of the Yahoo! Breaches from 2013 to 2016 have been overshadowed by the Equifax breaches and US election breaches of 2016.

03/13/2023

🚕 Uber, showing its hand.

03/10/2023

🧾 Maybe they could bring in some consultants?

With administrative access to the email systems, attackers theoretically had access to a large segment of emails sent and received by Deloitte and its customers.

03/09/2023

💻 An Apple a day...

A major bug in Linux security was found this week that would allow a hacker to perform a number of critical attacks. Although it was introduced in 2008 in the GNU C Library, it was only just discovered this week.