For those of you who read my blog regularly, it will not be news that I am not a huge fan of Bitcoin. There have been numerous bitcoin exchange hacks and now we have another, different attack. A Reddit user reported losing 13 Bitcoin – at current value about $35,000 or so – due to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like every day we see another credit card breach in the news. Recently the retail chain Buckles said they had a breach. Sabre, the airlines reservation system founded by American Airlines suffered a breach and as a result, so did a number of their customers including Hard Rock and Lowes Hotels. There are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint warning about malware attacks targeting U.S. nuclear plants. The malware has been operating since May. The Amber Alert, the second highest alert level that DHS issues said that the attacks, for the moment are targeting employees’ personal computers as opposed to the isolated network that actually controls […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some in Congress and the Intelligence Services are concerned that Kaspersky’s security software could be co-opted by the Russian government and be used to spy on American companies who use the software. Fundamentally, this is no different than concerns that people have that the U.S. spy agencies could or already have forced U.S. companies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is interesting to see what data companies collect on us. Unfortunately, that usually happens when the company suffers a breach. WWE joined the crowd of businesses that can’t quite remember to protect data that they make publicly accessible on the Internet. One more time, the data was stored at Amazon. In this case it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of the recent London Bridge terrorist attack using a truck as a weapon, British Prime Minister Theresa May has renewed her desire for software vendors to provide her with an encryption backdoor so that British law enforcement can look at messages from iPhones and Facebook’s Whatsapp, among other software. In the U.S., […]
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