Cloudflare, the company that helps web sites perform when under stress, including when under denial of service attacks, was the victim of a self induced cyber breach. For those who are not familiar with Cloudflare, it acts as a front end to a customer company’s web servers. With Cloudflare in front of a company’s servers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article on BBC.com really is asking that question. Recently, NASA engineer Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. citizen working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was stopped at Houston customs. He was returning from Chile where he was racing solar power cars. Customs demanded that he hand over his phone and the phone PIN. When he protested […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Cisco; now it is Juniper and apparently there are a number of other vendors who will be affected by this flaw. While no one is saying who the vendor of the flawed hardware inside Cisco and Juniper products is, it is believed that it is Intel’s Atom C2000 chip. Intel has acknowledged […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more people and more businesses embrace the cloud, the opportunity for disaster goes up. For example, we have seen companies move to the Amazon cloud and then be surprised when their web sites go dark (see this example). There are no silver bullets when it comes to data center availability and the cloud is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sounds like a low budget sci-fi thriller, but it is not. In a sneak peak of Verizon’s new data breach report, Verizon tells the story of an unnamed university that was attacked by its own vending machines. For real. The university had thousand of devices to manage, so, like many businesses, decided that connecting all […]
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