Viacom is playing down the significance of this, but that could just be damage control. One of our favorite security researchers, Chris Vickery, discovered yet another Amazon S3 storage bucket unprotected on Amazon. In this case, it did not contain non-public personal information of customers, according to Viacom. They touted this as a good thing, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the MANY lessons to be learned from the Equifax breach is how not to handle a breach. Here is just one of those lessons and it is a lesson for BOTH users and webmasters. NOTE: TO SEE A BIGGER IMAGE OF ANY OF THE PICTURES IN THIS POST, JUST CLICK ONCE ON THE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Similar to the WiFi bug we reported about in July (see post), this Bluetooth bug does not require the user to interact with the hacker, does not require the user to connect to an infected Bluetooth device or anything like that. All it requires is that Bluetooth is turned on in the device. The good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently Equifax had another, separate breach in March of this year, 5 months before the breach that they have already announced. Equifax hired the security firm Mandiant to check into both breaches, but since they have not said anything about this first breach, we really don’t know much about it. One assumes that this secret […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many employees use consumer grade, unmanaged cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive as part of their work. This is sometimes called BYOC for Bring Your Own Cloud. It is convenient, but is it a good idea for the business? Loss/theft of intellectual property – One of the obvious risks of BYOC is the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, Symantec has had problems with its server SSL certificate business for years and was on double-super probation. Symantec bought its certificate business mostly from Verisign in 2010 for about 1.2 billion dollars. It also bought the certificate businesses of Thawte, Equifax and others Last month it sold that business to […]
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