Michael Page/ The Page Group is a family of international recruiters operating in 35 countries and employing over 5,000 people and based in the United Kingdom. Like many companies, PageGroup outsourced at least part of their IT operations; in their case to another huge firm, CapGemini. Earlier this month, Troy Hunt (a Microsoft MVP and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think this is obvious, but just in case it is not, California wants to make this clear. It used to be, in California, that if you had sensitive data encrypted and that data was stolen, you didn’t have to tell people because, after all, it was encrypted. But there is a rub with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]cThe hacker group The Dark Overlord claims to have hacked Gorilla Glue and has stolen, they claim, over 500 GB of intellectual property. As I have said many times, the theft of intellectual property is a way bigger problem than the theft of credit cards. If someone steals your credit card, you whine at the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, announced a breach last month. Now the hackers behind the attack, the Dark Overlord, say that the clinic owner has not paid the ransom – 83 bitcoins or around $60k – and they are threatening to release more records. Last month they released names, birth dates, addresses, prescription info and socials of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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. […]
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