Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article on BBC.com really is asking that question. Recently, NASA engineer Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. citizen working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was stopped at Houston customs. He was returning from Chile where he was racing solar power cars. Customs demanded that he hand over his phone and the phone PIN. When he protested […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Cisco; now it is Juniper and apparently there are a number of other vendors who will be affected by this flaw. While no one is saying who the vendor of the flawed hardware inside Cisco and Juniper products is, it is believed that it is Intel’s Atom C2000 chip. Intel has acknowledged […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let that title sink in for a minute. A quarter of all web apps fail security miserably. That does not mean that the other 75% are secure; it means that the other 75% are less unsecure. For the 25%, it means that things are pretty hopeless. For a quick cheat sheet on the OWASP top […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more people and more businesses embrace the cloud, the opportunity for disaster goes up. For example, we have seen companies move to the Amazon cloud and then be surprised when their web sites go dark (see this example). There are no silver bullets when it comes to data center availability and the cloud is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sounds like a low budget sci-fi thriller, but it is not. In a sneak peak of Verizon’s new data breach report, Verizon tells the story of an unnamed university that was attacked by its own vending machines. For real. The university had thousand of devices to manage, so, like many businesses, decided that connecting all […]
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