21st Century Oncology, a Florida based cancer treatment center chain got that knock on the door that every CEO fears. The FBI came to them to tell them that hackers accessed a database of 2.2 million clients. The data includes names, Socials, physicians’ names, diagnosis, treatment information and insurance information. As I say all the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As many of you know, I am not a big fan of SSL. This week YET ANOTHER SSL attack was announced and patches for OpenSSL were released. There is a HUGE gap between patches being released and software being deployed in all places that use the affected software. It can take years. And all that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dwolla, a non-bank payment processor, settled charges with the CFPB this week. The Consent Order provides some insight into the expectations that the CFPB has for protecting consumer information. Kind of like getting Al Capone for tax evasion, the CFPB hit Dwolla for misrepresenting their security practices – what they call deceptive acts and practices. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired released a story today on the hack of the Ukraine power grid last December 23. This is the first time I have seen the “H” word (hack) used in anything closely considered official. The Wired article is based on a SANS Institute paper by investigators who were on the ground in Ukraine, scheduled to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are a data addicted culture. This story is a testament to that fact. Last month the security firm Avast tried an experiment. They set up a series of open (meaning free and not password protected) WiFi hotspots at the Barcelona Airport as people were arriving for the Mobile World Congress. Why? To see if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes you read something and it just ruins your mood. For fellow business travelers, this will be one of those posts. I guess I was burying my head in the sand up until now. This makes perfect sense even though I wasn’t thinking it through. The WiFi on a plane, whether it is GoGo like […]
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