On July 19, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a Private Industry Notification to service providers and “entities associated with the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics that cyber actors who wish to disrupt the event could use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, ransomware, social engineering, phishing campaigns, or insider threats to block or disrupt
The State of Cybersecurity in 2016 and the (potential) Great Cyber Fire
By Richard Borden on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity hit the news hard in 2016. The number of high profile, and troubling, cyber incidents increased significantly. The Democratic National Committee and one of Clinton’s top advisor’s being hacked, with leaked emails by Russia, according to intelligence reports, may have influenced the U.S. election. Theft of document from the Mossack Fonseca law firm in…
Hackers Cause Consumer Drones to Fall from the Sky
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
Last week at the PacSec security conference held in Tokyo, a new device capable of fully infiltrating radio-controlled drones was unveiled by researchers. This new device exploits a vulnerability in the frequency-hopping systems in many consumer drones. The frequency-hopping systems make it easier for drones to obfuscate and protect their radio communication. Of course, this…