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) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signalling System 7 or SS7 is the communication system that telephone carriers, both cellular and land line, use behind the scenes to route calls. Originally developed in 1975 – way before the Internet was popular – SS7 has virtually no security in it. It counts on securing the connections between telephone company switches, which, in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCleaner is a very popular disk utility that allows a user to securely erase certain content from their hard drives – like deleted files and cookies, among many other things. Coming in both a free and paid version, CCleaner has been used safely by users for years. Last month, however, hackers managed to inject malware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update to who may be affected. On October 10th, 2017, the Guardian is reporting that while Deloitte has only admitted that they have notified six clients, sources are saying that the server that was compromised contained emails for 350 clients, the US Departments of State, Energy, Homeland Security and Defense, The US Postal Service, The […]
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