Reports are coming out that the Trump organization suffered a hack, Bigly, as the President would say, around four years ago and, we assume, did not know about it until a week ago. The only alternative explanation is that they did know about and chose to let the hacker stay inside their network for four […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of weeks ago I wrote about yet another breach at a law firm. This time the firm was Appleby, a law firm based in Bermuda and home to the rich and famous – especially those that are looking for tax shelters and the similar. Most of these tax shelters are legal but the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New York already has one of the toughest cyber security regulations in the country, but it only applies to financial services firms like banks, mortgage companies and investment advisors. After the Equifax breach, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed that they add credit reporting agencies to the list of companies covered by the New York […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]WHAT. COULD. GO. WRONG??????????????????? Amazon is offering you a new feature; you can ask Alexa what you credit score is. Actually, it is not as bad as it sounds. But it doesn’t seem like the most secure thing ever. First, it is not really Amazon who is answering that question, it is Experian. Alexa has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this week Merck said that the NotPetya is going to cost them and the numbers are staggering. In last Friday’s earnings call Merck said that NotPetya has impacted third quarter results to the tune of around $300 million. That includes $135 million in lost sales and $175 million in costs. But that is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple sources are reporting a feature of iPhone apps that is a major privacy concern. This is not new and it also is an issue on Android phones, but, for some reason, everyone seems to be highlighting the problem with iPhones. PERHAPS, that is because it it is being exploited in the wild on iPhones […]
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