Microsoft just patched a bug this month (see article) that potentially allows a hacker to take over your computer and for sure allows a hacker to crash it – repeatedly – all because they forgot to check for a carry overflow in an addition operation. It potentially affects 70 million web sites and is being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported today that the age of drone vandalism has come. Early Wednesday morning, the graffiti artist/vandal known as KATSU used a hacked Phantom drone to deface a 6 story tall Calvin Klein billboard on Houston Street in New York City and posted the tagging of the billboard on You Tube. Given what he did […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T rolled out its Google Fiber competitor (see article) in the Kansas City, Mo. area (Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, and Overland Park, Kan. ) for the same price that Google charges – $70 a month. However, if you would prefer that AT&T not track the web pages you visit, the time you spend at each, the links […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In January Morgan Stanley caught one of it’s financial advisors, Galen Marsh, after he stole data on 350,000 clients and someone posted part of it on the Internet. This month a JPMorgan employee, Peter Persaud, was arrested for selling customer data to an undercover FBI snitch. While both of these people were in the financial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The CPA association (AICPA) in their Chartered Accountants Magazine (GGMA.Org) wrote about a survey that they did regarding consumer’s spending habits (see article). Below is a summary of the survey results: 25% of Americans said they were victims of cyber attacks this year, up from 11% last year. 86% of Americans are concerned about whether […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]McGuire Woods (McGuire Woods Firm Profile) writing this week says that cyber risk due diligence is an important part of the merger and acquisition process. In fact, they say, that failure to address these issues during due diligence could expose both buyers and sellers to a litany of adverse consequences (Cyber due diligence important during […]
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