One more time an open source database, MongoDB, is the source of another huge breach. But it isn’t Mongo’s fault. It wasn’t configured correctly. Human error one more time. OK, what are the details? And is it almost 60 million or 260 million? Modern Business Solutions apparently provides data storage services, although they have refused […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We often tell you about web sites that use your data and sometimes in ways that you don’t expect, but usually it is to sell it to advertisers. However, apparently, AT&T has created a new revenue stream. AT&T calls the program Project Hemisphere. Hemisphere is a program which allows law enforcement to search AT&T call […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think after all the stories about data breaches that companies would not be asking you for your personal information via email. As long as people will do it, companies will ask. After all, it is easy and when easy fights with secure, easy almost always wins. In the source article for this post […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While everyone has heard about the DNC and DNCC hacks and the hack of the Hillary Clinton campaign emails, there was another recent email hack – at Salesforce.com . The attack was not to obtain credit cards, nor was it to steal customer lists or the sales forecast. This time the hacker wanted to know […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week. And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers. Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies. The attack against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the big data vs. insurance rates battle is in its infancy, that does not mean that insurers don’t have plans. They do. Some are already using data from consumers to affect rates. Some insurers say that the data that consumers give them could lower rates and SOME insurers say that the data won’t be […]
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