Hacking, just like all other Internet businesses, is morphing to survive. And to be very clear, hacking is a business. Before people make funny jokes, no, hackers do NOT hack into porn sites for the pictures. They could use stolen credit cards if that was all they wanted. The porn site Brazzers was hacked, apparently […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this column is directed at lawyers, it applies equally well to anyone sending or receiving confidential communications via email and expecting those communications to actually be confidential. We think of business email compromise as one of those spear phishing emails that pretend to come from the boss telling you to wire money to China […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Merchants want you to believe that HTTPS equals secure. I keep saying that it doesn’t. Here is another story for my side of the argument. First, a little background. If a web site want to support HTTPS (also known as SSL or TLS), they need to have a certificate. The certificate is used as part […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mailguard is reporting a new phishing scam that uses the old “here is an invoice for you to review” or “here is a purchase order for you to review”. A screenshot of one of the emails is shown below. In both cases, the malware takes advantage of a vulnerability in Word that has been patched, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like I write one of these every day. Today it is Millennium Hotels and Resorts, an international hotel chain based in Colorado. They are saying customers that used their credit cards at 14 of their hotels between early March and the end of June need to keep an eye on their credit card […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All of the cell phone carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are in the business of selling you stuff. Sometimes stuff you don’t want or need, but still stuff they would like to sell to you. As a result, when decent security gets in the way of them being able to separate you […]
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