First Apple and Google removed the Parler app from both of their app stores. Then Amazon kicked them off Amazon’s AWS platform for violating their terms of service. That would seem like a problem for most companies, but that was the good part of their week. Yesterday a security researcher who goes by the nickname […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Britain Says Assange Cannot be Extradited Julian Assange, a long time thorn in the backside of some folks in the US government, cannot be extradited to the US, a British court says. The court said that while he probably can get a fair trial in the US, the court system in the US is unlikely […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Happy New Year. May 2021 be more sane than 2020. Microsoft Says Goal of Solar Winds Attack Was Your Cloud Data Microsoft says that the objective of the Solar Winds Hackers was to get into a number of organizations and then pick and choose which ones to attack, leaving the back door in place at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. OCC, FRB and FDIC Propose New Rule – Tell Us If You Have a Security Incident The federal banking regulators are proposing a new rule that banks and tech companies that service banks need to report to their regulator within 36 hours if the have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So you have been hacked and the hackers stole your customers’ data. You try to do the right thing and notify them. By email. Because that might be the only address you have for them. But many times that email never makes to your customer. Blocked by the customer’s email service provider or spam filter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Data from employment firm Automation Personnel Services Leaked Automation Personnel Services, a provider of temporary employment services, found 440 gigabytes of their data leaked on the dark web. The poster says that it includes payroll, accounting and legal documents. The data was leaked because the company refused to pay the ransom. When asked if the […]
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