In 2013 a disgruntled Citibank employee decided to get even. Lennon Ray Brown, 38, who worked for Citi during 2012 and 2013 in the Dallas area, decided to teach the bank a lesson. On December 23, 2013, Brown sent a set of commands to 10 of the Citi global core routers. Those commands erased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more and more breaches happen every month, businesses everywhere need to consider what would happen if their company had a breach. Here is advice from the national law firm of Perkins Coie. Is the breach reportable? The list of data items which, when compromised, triggers a reportable breach keeps growing. For example, this year Illinois […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A bug in a software library used in a wide variety of communications products such as cell towers, routers and switches and even the radio chips inside of cell phones was recently announced. The library in questions implements standard known as ASN.1 and was developed by Objective Systems. While we are all used to, for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Federal judge in New York tossed evidence in a drug bust based on the use of a Stingray cell site simulator, But the devil is in the details. To be clear, this is not about getting a warrant to use a Stingray and catching a drug dealer. This is about lying to or omitting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago, Android users were fighting something called the Stagefright bug. Buried deep in the bowels of the operating system was a series of bugs that would allow an attacker to send you a specially crafted text message and take over your Android phone. Stagefright affected close to a billion phones in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the government entity that manages the privacy of health care information that you share with doctors and others, has issued new guidance on ransomware. While technically, it only applies to organizations that they regulate, in reality, almost everything they said applies equally to […]
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