After a horrifying independent review of the Navy’s current cybersecurity posture, the Navy asked Congress to approve a new position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy to handle cyber. This comes after the Navy eliminated the role of CIO last year. Congress turned them down, so now they are going around Congress to create a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember, this only counts reported breaches. Marriott, for example, didn’t detect its breach for FOUR YEARS. And tens of thousands of breaches likely go both undetected and unreported. The midyear data breach review by Risk Based Security said there were 3,816 breaches REPORTED in the first half of 2019, up 54% from the first half […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unencrypted Biometric Data Database Found A database called Biostar2, of the fingerprints and face Scans of over a million people that are used by police, defense contractors and banks was found unencrypted and exposed on the Internet. That was bad enough. Then the article said that the database included user names, passwords and other personal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are nothing if not creative. Combine that with businesses not paying enough attention to security and you get a mess. Researchers discovered an unprotected database with over 5 million client records belonging to Choice Hotels. The hotel says there is good news. Only 700,000 of those records were from real customers. Doesn’t that make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The issue of foreign influence in US Presidential elections has been and continues to be a hot button. Sometimes the focus on election hacking is on hacking the ballot box, but while this is possible, it would be very hard to do that on a national scale, so it is unlikely that this is the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone has heard about the Federal Trade Commission fining (tentatively) Facebook $5 billion for sharing your data – with Cambridge Analytica – without your permission. The FBI has sought proposals for third parties to hoover up everything that is visible on social media and build a database so the FBI can search it for information […]
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