All of the cell phone carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are in the business of selling you stuff. Sometimes stuff you don’t want or need, but still stuff they would like to sell to you. As a result, when decent security gets in the way of them being able to separate you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers claimed to have a group of NSA hacker tools available for sale on the dark web. The tools were supposedly stolen from the Equation Group which has been loosely linked to the NSA. If all of this is true, then the reality is that the NSA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Monday I wrote about two new Point of Sale breaches, one at HEI hotels and the other at Oracle. I said that it was only Monday and we already had two POS breaches. Well the week is almost over and I am going to bookend the week with another POS breach. Eddie Bauer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people have webcams installed in and around their house. For a Houston mother, the security that the cameras inside her house brought her was instantly turned into a nightmare recently. Another mother, in Oregon, was looking at satellite feeds of earth with her son when they started looking for more images. They came […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia suffered a breach in June of this year. Even though they discovered the breach within two weeks of it occurring, the hackers made off with information on 200,000 current and former patients. The information taken includes names, addresses, socials, birth dates, phone numbers, diagnoses and medical histories. One of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t think that Allstate is a whole lot different than other insurance companies; maybe they are just being more open about it. Allstate has announced a new company called Arity, who’s job it is to sell your data. Insurance companies have a lot of data and creating more every day. One part of the […]
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