The government would like us to believe that if they have unfettered access to all the data that they want, it will be secure. The evidence does not support that. This past week, a terrorism database called World-Check was leaked accidentally (At least I think it was an accident). It contains information on about 2 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lizard Stresser, the “service” that came to fame on Christmas Day 2014 when it knocked Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s xBox web sites off line, has never gone away. Now it has a new claim to fame. The claimed purpose of the software was to allow web site owners to stress test their web sites under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anti Virus software has long been a concern of the security community. While it endeavors to protect the user’s workstation, in order to do it’s job, it requires a lot of system level permissions. This week, at least with Symantec, that came home to roost. Tavis Ormandy a researcher from Google announced that he’d found […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Early this year, we learned of a voter database of 191 million U.S. voters was found, unprotected on the Internet. The list contained name, address, political party, telephone and voting record (not who you voted for, but in which general elections and primaries). For people who want to keep that information private, such as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A hacker called thedarkoverlord is offering 3 unique medical databases for sale at prices ranging from 151 bitcoins to 607 bitcoins. Deep Dot Web got to look at images of the database, shown below. One database has 48,000 records from a healthcare company in Missouri. The second database has 210,000 records from a healthcare care […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Infosec Institute says that malicious cyber activity cost the US between $24 billion and $120 billion and worldwide that number was $300 billion to $1 trillion (see here). And that was in 2013! For investment professionals (and other businesses as well), poor cyber security practices which lead to being hacked can cause a complete […]
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