Alleged Russian hacker Validimir Drinkman, 34, was arraigned yesterday on hacking into 16 companies including The NASDAQ stock exchange, 7-11, J.C. Penney, Dow Jones, Heartland Payment Systems and others and stealing 160 million credit card numbers (see article). The attacks go as far back as 2005. Brian Krebs provides an inventory of some of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I often quote the statistic that Experian promotes that 60 percent of small and medium businesses that suffer a cyber security breach go out of business within 6 months. That is a pretty sobering number. However, First Data reports two amazing statistics – First, they say that 90 percent of the data breaches impact small […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that 10 states, led by Connecticut, have sent a letter to Anthem complaining that the company is moving too slowly in notifying consumers of the data breach that affected up to 80 million customers and employees (see article). The states are assuming that Anthem know precisely who’s data was taken and they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Denver TV station is reporting that they have received over 70 reports of Verizon customers who have been targeted by hackers who have masqueraded as them and ordered new iPhones shipped to out of state addresses. Verizon claims that they have not been breached and that could be true. It could be as simple […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It’s not been a great year for the NSA. First Snowden and all press they have gotten as a result of the leaked documents that seem to come out every month. Now a Russian security researcher, Gene Kaspersky, that I wrote about recently (see post) revealed that they have detected malware in the firmware of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Representative Will Hurd (R-TX), is the head of the House Information Technology Subcommittee and a former CIA Agent who spent 9 years in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, working on counter terrorism and cyber security before working for the cyber security firm FusionX. He has a somewhat depressing but very accurate view of cyber security. In […]
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