While we all know about the Equifax breach last year that compromised the data of almost 150 million people and businesses, until today we did not know about the Equifax hack two years earlier. In the earlier hack, former employees – actually Chinese spies – stole thousands of pages of documents including plans for new […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers have figured out how to hack a Telsa’s key fob in under two seconds. That’s impressive. Remotely. I think in this case remotely means that they do not have to touch the fob or the car, but they have to be pretty damn close to it – in radio range of the fob. Still, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, car manufacturers do not seem to care about whether the last owner still controls that used car that you just bought. While the issue of previous owners still having the ability to locate, unlock and even remote start some cars, car makers don’t seem to be doing anything about it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A robust incident response program and a well trained incident response team know exactly what to do and what not to do. One critical task in incident response is to preserve evidence. Evidence may need to be preserved based on specific legal requirements, such as for defense contractors. In other cases, evidence must be preserved […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes even if you try to be safe, it doesn’t work the way you want. Fiserv provides banking software to over a third of all banks. They have 24,000 employees and almost $6 billion in revenue. Many of its client banks are smaller banks and credit unions, but some large banks use Fiserv too. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Law enforcement in general and the FBI in particular have been talking about the “going dark” problem caused by encryption on phones. Except, maybe, that isn’t the biggest problem that law enforcement is facing. The Center for Strategic and International Studies just released a study based on interviews […]
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