The Federal government has demonstrated its inability to keep its own house in order at the same time that it expects citizens and businesses to trust it with very sensitive information. From the SEC’s EDGAR breach, the OPM breach and others, add the FDIC. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that the Federal Deposit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T U-Verse, which used to be what they called their triple play Internet-phone-TV package and now is just their TV package has about 4 million customers. Compared to AT&T Directv, that is small, but still substantial. Some part of that customer base uses Arris modems – maybe 150,000. Those modems have serious security holes that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There have always been questions about connections between Gene Kaspersky’s company and the Russian spy agencies like the FSB, but not necessarily any hard proof. Last month, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to remove Kaspersky anti virus software without any real explanation. Some thought it was as retribution while others thought it was over-reaction. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: In light of the title of this post, the Irish data protection commissioner, Helen Dixon, says that her office is investigating “next steps” in investigating Yahoo. While I don’t think the U.S. will do anything more than slap Yahoo on the wrist for allowing three billion identities to be compromised, the EU generally takes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes Congress can be entertaining, but not usually. Today was an exception. FORMER Equifax Chairman Richard Smith, under who’s watch the huge Equifax data breach occurred, testified at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee. What did he say? #1 – Even though Homeland Security told Equifax (and others) about the Apache Struts vulnerability in March, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Montgomery County, Alabama joined the ranks of probably millions of others and paid a ransom to get their data back after hackers threatened to erase their data if the ransom was not paid within 7 days. While details are sketchy, reports are that the attack began Monday around 5PM (at the end of the day) […]
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