Kaspersky Labs, the research arm of the Russian anti-malware software company, released some statistics that may not surprise you, but should concern you. Among the statistics – 1 in 10 did not think that people outside of their friends could see their posts. That’s actually a good thing – most people understand that their posts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I clicked on a link this morning to download a Ponemon Institute report this morning and got this big red X in my browser (click to enlarge in a new tab): The link went to an IBM site (IBM sponsored Ponemon’s report), so this is not a small obscure company who does not know better. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently, the FBI has been knocking on businesses doors. First we heard about Scottrade. In October the FBI came visiting Scottrade. Hi. How ya doin’? Oh, by the way, we found files on 4.6 million of your customers on the dark web. Have a nice day. In September it was Owensboro Health in Kentucky. The FBI […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is a great example of why users have to demand that developers up their cyber security game. Unless the developers make smart security choices, we will continue to make life easy for hackers. The examples on how web sites handle passwords described below should make this point clear. Don’t ever store passwords in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Notice I said REDUCE, not ELIMINATE. J.D. Wetherspoon is a British restaurant chain that was hacked and compromised information on about 650,000 customers. Although the information was stolen in June 2015, the breach was not discovered until December 2015. While the data was not terribly sensitive (very few credit card numbers; mostly name, email address, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Intercept wrote about this issue – which is not new – and then Ars Technica wrote about it more accurately. This is not a devious plot to steal your junk (even though it could be used to do that) but rather an effort to have you not want to fly out to Redmond and […]
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