Veracode, a company who assists developers to improve software code quality analyzes the data of their customer’s testing and releases summary data to help the industry understand code quality issues. Below are a few scary results from their most recent report. 87% of Android apps and 80% of iOS apps have cryptographic issues. This means […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week Adobe release a set of patches fixing 78 vulnerabilities. At the same time, Microsoft released patches for 71 vulnerabilities – three-quarters of which Microsoft rated as CRITICAL. Two vendors, one month, 149 bugs patched. Think about the amount of software that is out there. If every other product is as reliable as Microsoft’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mark Weatherford, first deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, chief information security officer for the State of California and chief security officer for the State of Colorado, among other jobs, spoke at TiE Rockies, an entrepreneur group based in Metro Denver. Mark spoke on his views regarding cybersecurity. A video of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to phish and he’ll use your credit card to buy dinner.” Many people say that they are too small for hackers to bother with them. Reality is, according to Verizon’s 2012 data breach study, that out of 855 breaches they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British pub firm Wetherspoons was recently hacked. The hacker got away with names, birthdays, email addresses and phone numbers of over 600,000 people as well as credit card information on a few customers. The hacker contacted a reporter – a assume to brag, see link below – and said that breaching the site was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Wyndham Worldwide hotel chain, which has been fighting with the FTC for years after the hotel chain suffered three security breaches in two years exposing credit card data, settled with the FTC this week. The hotel went as far as to attempt to get the courts to say that the FTC did not have […]
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