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Next Credit Card Attack Target – Service Providers To Stores

As companies like Target and Home Depot begin to clean up their credit card protecting acts, the cyber thieves are moving on to a different class of victim. This week, Service Systems Associates acknowledged that they had been hacked and as a result, some of their clients systems were compromised. How this works is this: […]

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UL Seal Of Approval On Your Internet Connected Device – Maybe

Underwriters labs, the folks that test most consumer electrical appliances for safety, has set up a division to certify Internet of Things devices – whatever they are.  Apparently, most people have heard of the term, but don’t know what that means.  An example of it might be your Internet connected refrigerator that texts you when […]

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Systemic Vulnerabilities In The Digital Age

In case you haven’t seen the news today, the morning started with United Airlines saying that they experienced a “system-wide computer problem”.   United later said that an issue with a network router “degraded network connectivity for various applications, causing this morning’s operational disruption”.  The disruption meant that no United flights took off from about […]

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OpenSSL: Here We Go Again

UPDATE:  The details are out.  The issue is that under certain circumstances, a hacker could get OpenSSL to accept an HTTPS certificate that is fraudulent.  This does not affect the major browsers, but rather the second and third tier software that uses SSL behind the scenes.  Likely, you don’t even know all the places that […]

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