GCHQ, the British version of the NSA created a program around 2008 that hacked into Yahoo’s network and captured stills of video chats being conducted by Yahoo users. So as not to overload GCHQ’s servers, the software only stored one image per video session every 5 minutes. Still, in a 6 month period, they captured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While people are purchasing Internet of Things devices at record numbers, most people are not looking at the security implications of them. Given that, here is something to ponder. Apple, like every other company on the planet, is trying to capitalize on the IoT craze. They sell software that allows developers to build software to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time, Microsoft has released an emergency patch to plug a hole in the software that is supposed to protect you from the bad guys. The Windows Defender family of products (including Microsoft Security Essentials, as well as Endpoint Protection, Forefront Endpoint Protection, and Exchange Server 2013 and 2016) has to open the files that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, home to Charlotte, was hit with a ransomware attack that the county was clearly unprepared to handle. The good news, if there is any in a situation like this, is that the attackers only compromised about 48 out of the county’s 500 servers, but other servers were shut down to make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
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