For many years hackers have been content destroy companys’ office networks and demand ransom if those companies wanted control of their systems back in order to do business. But that is not enough for the hackers. They want to shut down factories and due damage. There have been a couple of barriers to hackers being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Banks are very good at security. Certain kinds of security, that is. They have vaults with really cool doors. Many banks have armed guards. And alarms. In some cities they put tellers in cages to protect them (that is NOT a great metaphor). But when it comes to developing software, they are subject to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oops – Office Depot Mimics Phone Phishers Thanks to reader Gina for this one. Office Depot got caught scamming its customers telling them they had (fake) malware on their computers when they asked OD and its vendor Support.com to scan their computers. No, they didn’t have malware – just a bill for unneeded services. While […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Poland’s data protection regulator made an interesting decision affecting a Swedish based digital marketing company named Bisnode. Poland’s regulator, the national Personal Data Protection Office (UODO in Polish), fined Bisnode 220,000 Euros for failing to comply with Article 14 of GDPR. Article 14 requires a data controller to inform a person when it collects data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We’re From the Government and WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU! Well, not really. We don’t have to worry about the gov being hacked. They just give our information away. At least in this case there is no hard evidence that the data was misused. FEMA hired a contractor to help it find temporary housing for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting combination of countries. Multi-billion dollar Taiwan based computer make Asus makes a wide range of computers sold worldwide. Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky, whom the White House says is a threat to national security and should be banned (which I basically think is mostly true), identified that hackers attacked Asus’s software update […]
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