Equifax Fallout Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending against re-electing 5 directors who sat on the audit and technology committees prior to the recent breach. Equifax says that the breach will cost them an estimated $439 million through the end of this year and the company is facing hundreds of lawsuits. The company has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Way back in the dark ages of 2013 the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released a document regarding processing credit cards in the cloud. It was 52 pages. This month the PCI SSC released a new version of that same document. It is now 83 pages. This version seems to better understand the risk […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It wasn’t so long ago that 4 digit passcodes were the norm. Now 6 digit passcodes are obsolete. GrayKey, the new kid on the block offering low cost cracking of iPhones up to and including the iPhone X requires users who are concerned about that to change their password habits. Pricing on Graykey, supposedly, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oxygen equipment maker Inogen announced that information on 30,000 customers was hacked as an attacker compromised the credentials of an employee. In the grand scheme of breaches, this one barely registers. Yes, HIPAA protected information was taken (and Health and Human Services may come after them in say 2021, but it is another example of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel will NOT be patching all of its flawed chips After saying, for months, that it would release firmware updates to all chipsets produced in the last 5 years, Intel is now backtracking saying that it won’t produce patches for the Bloomfield line, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, Penryn, SoFIA 3GR, the Wolfdale line, and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SESTA/FOSTA was a bill that was supposedly designed to shut down sex trafficking sites on the Internet by effectively repealing the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which protects online service providers like Facebook and Google from being prosecuted for the postings of their users. The bills, which have been around […]
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