This time the attack is against an eCommerce platform, PrismWeb, that is used by College bookstores. The attack is similar to other attacks, in the the hackers somehow got into the company’s system and inserted a tiny bit of Javascript that steals credit card data – very similar to Magecart that is affecting sites from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One good thing about breach notification laws – we tend to find out more information about what actually happened. Last month Citrix announced that hackers broke into their network and stole documents – corporate secrets. They said they found out when the FBI came to tell them (that probably was not fun to admit). Security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stories – and only stories – abound about whether the Ruskies have infiltrated the US power grid – years ago. The government is not going to tell the truth for fear of scaring the crap out of people. On March 5th a “cyber event” interrupted the power grid in parts of the western United States. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The fourth annual benchmark on cyber resilience authored by Larry Ponemon and paid for by IBM shows that 77% of the organizations surveyed do not have a cybersecurity incident response program applied consistently across the organization. Does your organization have an effective, trained and tested cybersecurity incident response program (CSISP) that works across all parts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As Terrorists Blow Up Soft Targets, Sri Lanka Turns Off Social Media As Sri Lanka is dealing with multiple bombs exploding at churches and hotels, the country’s solution to the inevitable use of social media to fan flames and release propaganda, in addition to news is to turn off social media. At the current time, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With the government doing just about zero when it comes to protecting you from Internet of Things security hacks, this leaves the entire burden on you. A hacker broke into two different GPS tracker apps – he hacked about 7,000 iTrack accounts and 20,000 ProTrack accounts. In general hacking into someone’s web account might cost […]
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