Smart cars are very in these days. You can start it remotely, lock or unlock the doors, even find out where the car is. We also saw a smart car get taken over – turning the steering wheel 90 degrees while the car was going 60 MPH and controlling the gas and brakes. But what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare, the company that helps web sites perform when under stress, including when under denial of service attacks, was the victim of a self induced cyber breach. For those who are not familiar with Cloudflare, it acts as a front end to a customer company’s web servers. With Cloudflare in front of a company’s servers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Right after Yahoo announced all of the different breaches, the expectation was that Verizon merger offer would be modified or totally go away. Well, there is some news and it is probably not as bad as it could be. Many people were suggesting that the price would go down by a billion dollars and that Verizon […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At least in Pennsylvania, a court says the answer is no. Here are the details. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was hacked and employee’s personal information was taken and used to file phony tax refunds. Information taken included names, socials, birth dates, addresses and salaries. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that employees […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article on BBC.com really is asking that question. Recently, NASA engineer Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. citizen working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was stopped at Houston customs. He was returning from Chile where he was racing solar power cars. Customs demanded that he hand over his phone and the phone PIN. When he protested […]
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