The New York Times published an interesting piece on the Yahoo breach. The Times says that 6 years ago Yahoo, Google and a number of other tech companies were hacked by the Chinese. That is where the similarity ends, according to the Times. At Google, co-founder Sergey Brin took the hack personally. Google hired hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote about 21st Century Oncology in March (see post here) when the FBI came knocking on their door. The result? 2.2 million records compromised. At that time they said that they likely did not have enough insurance to cover the costs of the breach. Fast forward six months. Law360 is reporting that Charter Oak […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were not paranoid before, you may be now. According to a lawsuit filed last month, the Golden State Warrior’s app turns on your phone’s microphone in order to figure out where the owner is, in order to serve ads to the user. The suit names the NBA team, Yinzcam, Inc., which developed the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lloyd’s of London released a study that said while 92% of firms have been breached, only 42% are worried that they will be breached again in the future. Either, this means that those 92% learned an incredible lesson and completely changed the way that they run their businesses as a result of being breached ….. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian’s web site is not back with Akamai, but rather with Google’s Project Shield. Project Shield is an effort by Google to support free speech to journalists around the world. If they accept your web site, there is no cost. And Google probably has a fair amount of both bandwidth and brainpower to stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unless you have been totally disconnected for the last 24 hours, you are no doubt aware that Yahoo announced what may be the largest breach of accounts in history – 500 million accounts. Included in the hack were names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and security questions. They are saying, at […]
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