While the details of this are interesting, what is more important is thinking about all of the contracts that you sign. This is a legal battle that goes back several years. In one corner is Fiserv, the Fortune 200 +/- financial services software behemouth. In the other corner is Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, works for Congress and does studies of how horribly inefficient the government is. In theory, that is so Congress can create new laws to make them do what any sensible organization would do without the laws. Here is one example. The GAO reviewed the security practice […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senate Passes Legislation to Protect Against Deep Fakes While I agree that deep fakes – photos and videos that use tech to make it look like someone is saying something or doing something that they never did – can be nasty, is that really the best use of the Senate’s time right now? In any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seems like Facebook can’t catch a break. Whether it is Cambridge Analytica or one of the many other scandals plaguing the company, it seems like the only news coverage they get is bad coverage. This time it is information that Facebook logged users’ passwords in plain text for anyone to read, stored those logs on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let that title sink in for a minute. A quarter of all web apps fail security miserably. That does not mean that the other 75% are secure; it means that the other 75% are less unsecure. For the 25%, it means that things are pretty hopeless. For a quick cheat sheet on the OWASP top […]
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