This story is fictitious, but probably something very similar has happened way too many times to someone. The CEO/CIO of the company tries to log in to one of the cloud services that the company uses and it says that the password is incorrect. He or she calls customer service and explains the situation. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Different sources are reporting different numbers, but the personal information on between 6 million and 14 million Verizon Wireless customers has been exposed. The information includes name, address, phone number, general information on calls made to customer service and, in some cases, the user’s security PIN. The details of this are going to sound all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who read my blog regularly, it will not be news that I am not a huge fan of Bitcoin. There have been numerous bitcoin exchange hacks and now we have another, different attack. A Reddit user reported losing 13 Bitcoin – at current value about $35,000 or so – due to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like every day we see another credit card breach in the news. Recently the retail chain Buckles said they had a breach. Sabre, the airlines reservation system founded by American Airlines suffered a breach and as a result, so did a number of their customers including Hard Rock and Lowes Hotels. There are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint warning about malware attacks targeting U.S. nuclear plants. The malware has been operating since May. The Amber Alert, the second highest alert level that DHS issues said that the attacks, for the moment are targeting employees’ personal computers as opposed to the isolated network that actually controls […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some in Congress and the Intelligence Services are concerned that Kaspersky’s security software could be co-opted by the Russian government and be used to spy on American companies who use the software. Fundamentally, this is no different than concerns that people have that the U.S. spy agencies could or already have forced U.S. companies to […]
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