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November 4, 2016

Did the Mirai Botnet Really Take Liberia Offline?

This post was originally published on this siteKrebsOnSecurity received many a missive over the past 24 hours from readers who wanted to know why I’d not written about widespread media reports that Mirai — a malware strain made from hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as poorly secured routers and IP cameras — was used to knock the entire country of Liberia offline. The trouble is, as far as I can tell no such nationwide outage actually occurred. First, a quick recap on Mirai: This blog was taken offline in September following a record 620 Gpbs attack launched by a […]
September 25, 2017

Source: Deloitte Breach Affected All Company Email, Admin Accounts

This post was originally published on this siteDeloitte, one of the world’s “big four” accounting firms, has acknowledged a breach of its internal email systems, British news outlet The Guardian revealed today. Deloitte has sought to downplay the incident, saying it impacted “very few” clients. But according to a source close to the investigation, the breach dates back to at least the fall of 2016, and involves the compromise of all administrator accounts at the company as well as Deloitte’s entire internal email system. In a story published Monday morning, The Guardian said a breach at Deloitte involved usernames, passwords and […]