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The Ultimate Hack – Shut Down Or We Will Expose Your Customer Data

The Ashley Madison web site, where people go to cheat on their spouses, was hacked last week.  This is an interesting situation for a number of reasons. First, a little background.  The Ashley Madison web site is owned by Avid Life Media (ALM), which also runs several other web sites – Cougar Life and Established […]

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Add UCLA To The List Of Hacked Health Care Sites

Add UCLA to the list of health care providers that have been hacked.  UCLA says they discovered the hacking last September, but it was not until May that they discovered that the hackers had gotten into the part of the system that stores patient records.  Even now they are not sure if the hackers took […]

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The Gap Between The Board and IT Security

The Ponemon Institute released a study that compares the views of about 7,000 Board members and 11,000 IT security people and the results show some interesting data. The first question is ” Our board of directors understands the security risks to the organization”.  While 70% of the board members agree or strongly agree with that […]

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It’s Patch Day

Yesterday was Patch Tuesday.  Microsoft had 14 bulletins, 5 of which they deemed critical, covering 59 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches covering 193 vulnerabilities, including 25 Java patches, one of which is already being exploited in the wild.    44 of these vulnerabilities came from third party components.  Of the 25 Java vulnerabilities fixed, 23 of […]

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