Before a few days ago, I had never heard of MasterPrints. Of course, there are many things that I have never heard about. MasterPrints, of course, have to do with security. Have you ever heard of MasterPrints? Here is the story. Everyone is familiar with fingerprint sensors on cell phones and other devices. They are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This story is fictitious, but probably something very similar has happened way too many times to someone. The CEO/CIO of the company tries to log in to one of the cloud services that the company uses and it says that the password is incorrect. He or she calls customer service and explains the situation. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Different sources are reporting different numbers, but the personal information on between 6 million and 14 million Verizon Wireless customers has been exposed. The information includes name, address, phone number, general information on calls made to customer service and, in some cases, the user’s security PIN. The details of this are going to sound all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who read my blog regularly, it will not be news that I am not a huge fan of Bitcoin. There have been numerous bitcoin exchange hacks and now we have another, different attack. A Reddit user reported losing 13 Bitcoin – at current value about $35,000 or so – due to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like every day we see another credit card breach in the news. Recently the retail chain Buckles said they had a breach. Sabre, the airlines reservation system founded by American Airlines suffered a breach and as a result, so did a number of their customers including Hard Rock and Lowes Hotels. There are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of the recent London Bridge terrorist attack using a truck as a weapon, British Prime Minister Theresa May has renewed her desire for software vendors to provide her with an encryption backdoor so that British law enforcement can look at messages from iPhones and Facebook’s Whatsapp, among other software. In the U.S., […]
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