As if things weren’t bad enough for Marissa Mayer and Yahoo after the announcement of losing 500 million user records and the very negative article in the NY Times last week about how they treated security, now there is a new revelation. Supposedly, Yahoo wrote custom software to search all emails in real time for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why do hackers steal medical and health insurance information and what do they do with it? Why does your personal health information sell for 25 to 50 times what credit card information sells for? The first answer? Your credit card information is typically toast within 30 days of the first use, sometimes sooner. And of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way. After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer; it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The DarkOverlord is a hacking group that came to light midyear when it announced it was selling 9+ million patient records on the dark web for around a half million dollars in Bitcoin. That breach apparently includes Socials, dates of birth and other information. Now they have moved on to financial services with a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times published an interesting piece on the Yahoo breach. The Times says that 6 years ago Yahoo, Google and a number of other tech companies were hacked by the Chinese. That is where the similarity ends, according to the Times. At Google, co-founder Sergey Brin took the hack personally. Google hired hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote about 21st Century Oncology in March (see post here) when the FBI came knocking on their door. The result? 2.2 million records compromised. At that time they said that they likely did not have enough insurance to cover the costs of the breach. Fast forward six months. Law360 is reporting that Charter Oak […]
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