At least according to Peter Singer, Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. Writing in Fortune, Singer says many things that won’t make him very popular. A sampling: 97% of the Fortune 500 companies have been hacked and likely the other 3% too, they just don’t know it. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the issues with Apple Pay security problems (see post), I didn’t really understand the scope of what I was writing about. Thanks to Brian Krebs (see his post), I now understand the problem is bigger than I thought. Let’s assume that you are a crook and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Register is reporting that there are a couple of ways a hacker can take over a PC just by having you insert a Blu-Ray disc. The first method exploits a poor software design in PowerDVD, the free DVD player software that is loaded on many PCs. It allows the hacker to exploit a bug […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, that is basically the summary of a Network World Article on the subject. In a high end car there are hundreds of computers and millions of lines of software. Gone are the days when you car was a big hunk of machined metal. Now your car is a super computer network on wheels. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA released a 5 page document last week on keeping malware out of your network. 5 pages with links to hundreds of pages of other NSA documents. It would probably take a year just to read and absorb them. Then you have to deal with implementing the suggestions. Some are simple, some are hard. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The National Law Review has a great article on board member’s responsibility in the area of cyber security. One quote from the article: a 2012 Carnegie Mellon poll of how U.S. boards are managing cyber risks found that 71% rarely or never review privacy and security budgets, 80% rarely or never review roles and responsibilities, and nearly […]
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