For Financial Service firms, the message is clear. Both FINRA and the SEC are looking over your shoulder to make sure that you are taking cyber security seriously. And the fines are not small. From hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, firms big and small are getting whacked with fines. In 2014, the SEC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The St. Louis Public Library system was hit with a ransomware attack last week. All 17 branches; around 700 systems. The attackers asked for $35,000 to decrypt the 700 computers that were infected – translating to around $50 a computer. However the library told them to pound sand – or something like that, possibly, something […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Symantec, who is already on probation for issuing inappropriate SSL certificates, issued more than a hundred additional “illegit” certificates. SSL certificates – more technically TLS certificates – are the bits of technology required to make those “secure” web sites work. Certificates are issued by certificate authorities (CAs) – organizations who have supposedly set up processes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When cyber criminals steal credit cards or buy stolen credit cards, they are buying somewhat of an unknown. Small time crooks test small numbers of cards by trying to use them at self service gas pumps in the middle of the night, but that doesn’t scale up and you run the risk of getting caught. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Houston, we have a problem! So goes the famous NASA mis-quote (Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert actually said “Houston, we HAD a problem here”. You may recall that the Apollo 13 capsule did limp home after aborting its mission. The “problem” that they had was more like a catastrophe and it was, to most people, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]
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