The commerce giant Walmart has taken the first step toward a patent and filed an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain”. The application was filed in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Read more…
Newly published details provide a detailed look at a well-orchestrated and well-funded attack on the crypto currency exchange Coinbase. Several employees back in May received an email from Gregory Harris, an administrator at the University Read more…
“An unidentified individual has threatened and harassed us, demanding 300 BTC in exchange for withholding 10,000 photos that bear similarity to Binance KYC data,” said Binance in an official statement. Binance also said that the company Read more…
The Wall Street Journal has reported that federal regulators were “greeted warily” at the Richmond, Virginia-based Amazon Web Services data center back in April. The regulators were assigned an Amazon-appointed chaperone and received only limited Read more…
Office 365 administrators are the latest target for cybercriminal phishing. A mix of fake log-in alerts and copycat log in screen are phishing for credentials, relying on the IT users’ urgency to fix critical issues to Read more…
Synology, a Taiwan-based storage vendor, has notified users that several network attached storage devices (NAS) were encrypted by ransomware. NAS units are used to store terabytes of data by both home and small-business users. Attackers Read more…
An NBC news article has reported that Microsoft on Wednesday announced a free software that is designed to allow a voter to verify that their vote has been recorded and not tampered with. The company Read more…
Adirondack Health began notifying over 25,000 patients in early July that a protected health information breach occurred. Adirondack Health, part of Vermont-based Adirondacks Accountable Care Organization (ACO), discovered on March 4, 2019 that an employee’s Read more…
ITPro Today has reported that Anomali, a threat detection vendor, has discovered a ransomware that targets QNAP network-attached storage devices via a brute-force credential attack that bypasses weak log in credentials. The ransomware, called eCh0raix, Read more…
A Florida city that paid $460,000 ransom in June is still struggling to recover. Riviera Beach’s city computer systems were seized, causing havoc in the local police and fire departments. The attack began when a Read more…