The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the
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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare
December 14, 2021 A Little Sunshine, Conti ransomware, Data Breaches, H-ISAC, Health Service Executive, HSE, Ireland, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ransomware, Ryuk A Little Sunshine, Conti ransomware, Data Breaches, H-ISAC, Health Service Executive, HSE, Ireland, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ransomware, Ryuk
Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
December 9, 2021 A Little Sunshine, darkcloudowner, Darkode, DCReavers2, fbi, fubar, Iserdo, Matt Watson, Matthew Philbert, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ontario Provincial Police, Project CODA, Ransomware A Little Sunshine, darkcloudowner, Darkode, DCReavers2, fbi, fubar, Iserdo, Matt Watson, Matthew Philbert, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ontario Provincial Police, Project CODA, Ransomware
A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Canadian authorities describe him as
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Ubiquiti Developer Charged With Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”
December 2, 2021 A Little Sunshine, Nickolas Sharp, Surfshark, Ubiquiti A Little Sunshine, Nickolas Sharp, Surfshark, Ubiquiti
In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. In March, a Ubiquiti employee warned that the company had drastically understated
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The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
November 26, 2021 A Little Sunshine, Adam Korab, BGP, Border Gateway Protocol, CenturyLink, Internet Routing Registry, IRR, kc claffy, Level3 Communications, Lumen Technologies, The Coming Storm A Little Sunshine, Adam Korab, BGP, Border Gateway Protocol, CenturyLink, Internet Routing Registry, IRR, kc claffy, Level3 Communications, Lumen Technologies, The Coming Storm
A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s biggest companies — just by spoofing
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The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: How it Works, How to Fight Back
November 20, 2021 A Little Sunshine, Bob Sullivan, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CUNA Mutual Insurance, Ken Otsuka, Latest Warnings, Web Fraud 2.0, Zelle scam A Little Sunshine, Bob Sullivan, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CUNA Mutual Insurance, Ken Otsuka, Latest Warnings, Web Fraud 2.0, Zelle scam
One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle, a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly
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