Update: Sep 15, 2017 – Equifax’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO) “retired” (AKA were fired) today, effective immediately, according to USA Today. Hopefully, the Board will ask the CEO to “retire” soon as well. CIO Susan Mauldin and CSO David Webb are taking the heat for not installing one patch, out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have seen a number of hacks of cars including the hack of a Jeep driving down the highway at 60 miles an hour – from miles away – on 60 Minutes, but now researchers have come up with a new attack – one that cannot be patched. The CAN bus or Controller Area Network […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired ran a piece a few weeks ago with the title of this post. An alternative title might be “How to get yourself arrested and prosecuted“. While Wired’s heart was in the right place, they probably should have consulted an attorney before they published the article. The basic premise of the article is that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this week Equifax, the credit reporting giant, announced that hackers wandered inside their systems between May and July of this year. 143 million records were compromised. In addition to that, credit card numbers on 200,000 people were compromised and personal identifying information on 182,000 people were also released. Information compromised includes names, Social Security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security firm Symantec is reporting that hackers have compromised energy companies in the U.S. and Europe. Well that sounds bad enough, but we have to ask the question “what do you mean when you say compromised?” The answer is a little bit complicated. For most energy companies, in a bid to make it tougher […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about an incident with a vendor to the City of Chicago who left close to two million voter records exposed on Amazon and how the vendor, in spite of the initial mistake of exposing the data, handled the breach very well (see blog post). Today we have another case and, this […]
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