LinkedIn is becoming LinkedOut, at least in Russia. Our friend Vladimir Putin passed a law in 2014 that said that any company that operates in Russia needs to store it’s user’s data in country. Most U.S. companies protested against it, although it is believed that a few have an architecture that allows them to do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Comey has talked a lot about the “going dark” problem but we now have some statistics on the problem. So far this fiscal year, the FBI has received 6,814 devices – phones or computers – to forensically examine. Of those devices, only 2,095 of them had any form of password on the device. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adult Friend Finder, which bills itself as the largest sex and swinger community, was hacked, for the second time in a year. Last year was small beans. Last month it was: Adultfriendfinder.com – 339 million Cams.com – 62 million Penthouse.com – 7 million (and they don’t even own the web site any more) Stripshow.com – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter. While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal. In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This post applies to two groups of people – Members of a law firm Clients who share their sensitive information with their law firms That pretty much means everyone! The American Bar Association model rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 says that “a lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to prevent the inadvertent or unauthorized access, to information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you bought a car in the last few years, it is possible that your data is available for sale on the black market. Names, addresses, phone numbers and socials for both customers and employees for over a hundred car dealerships were exposed. For how long and to whom is unknown. The system that got […]
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