P.F. Chang’s restaurant chain suffered a cyber breach in which about 60,000 credit cards were stolen. The breach only affected 33 of the company’s approximately 400 restaurants, so it could have been much worse, even though it lasted 8 months. Still, the restaurant spent about $1.7 million recovering from the breach. If the breach hit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals For years we always thought Blackberry was the security standard that everyone else was measured by. In April we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Chinese researcher has “discovered” a Windows flaw which affects all versions of Windows released in the last 20 years. It does not require installing malware and it can be executed silently with near perfect success. While no one seems to be saying this, I wonder if the Chinese have known about this attack for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For many people, they have their Windows desktops and laptops set to automatically install Microsoft’s monthly updates. For businesses, that is not usually the case. They need to make sure that the updates don’t break things and often, as a result, it takes a while for businesses to get the updates installed. In addition, for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have said before, the Internet of Things is going to be a bit of a security ‘challenge’. Here is just one simple example. The security company Rapid7 analyzed a number of home video baby monitors. You know, the kind where you can put a monitor in the bedroom and you or the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“This is not time for firms to keep calm and carry on. The proper response is to freak out.” – Prof. Dan Solove, GWU Law School While I am not sure that freaking out is, in fact, the only proper response, I think that what Prof. Solove is saying is that ignoring the situation is […]
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