The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group admitted that their credit card system at an unknown number of their hotels was hacked and credit cards compromised AFTER they were outed by Krebs On Security. The upscale hotel chain, where rooms at the New York property start at $850 a night, would be a great target for hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Register is reporting that Anthem refused to allow U.S. government auditors to audit their systems as required as part of a contract that Anthem has with the U.S. government. This news is coming out after Anthem was hacked of some 88 million customer records. The Office Of Personnel Management Inspector General audits insurers who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ars technica is reporting that Uber is scrambling to try to recover from an itty bitty problem. Apparently, someone posted Uber source code (probably an Uber employee) to the public source code repository GitHub. GitHub is a wonderful tool for storing open source software code in a way that is easy for developers to share. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While everyone is off beating up Lenovo and Lenovo, in turn, is beating up Komodia, I suggest everyone is missing the real problem. First of all, to make sure that no one is confused, this problem is not limited to Lenovo consumer laptops. Komodia has over a hundred customers developing software, all of which put […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I suspected when Apple Pay was released, the hackers did not just give up and say “this is too hard” and all get jobs at Burger King. No, instead they said, what vulnerabilities does Apple Pay have? The first one (at least that we know of) is something called yellow path. The hackers have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Think about all the non public personal information that a […]
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