Many people have webcams installed in and around their house. For a Houston mother, the security that the cameras inside her house brought her was instantly turned into a nightmare recently. Another mother, in Oregon, was looking at satellite feeds of earth with her son when they started looking for more images. They came […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sage Group, an international cloud based accounting, payroll, HR and CRM services company acknowledged a breach this week. The breach affects around 300 companies based in the U.K. but the value of the breach is not in who got breached, but rather the lessons to be learned from it. The company provides accounting and payroll […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So far this week (and it is only Monday), we have two POS breaches in the news. HEI Hotels and Resorts, which manages almost 60 hotels for Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and other chains announced that 20 of their locations, covering all of their brands, had suffered breaches. While they have not said how many cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is starting to roll out new security messages in the next week or so to help users to be able to detect spam emails and malicious web sites. For GMail read on the web or on Android devices, any message whose sender cannot be authenticated with Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or Domain Keys Identified Mail […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Knowstartup.com came up with a list of suggestions for startups in the arena of data security and privacy, but after reading it, the list is applicable to anyone, so here is my take on it: Allowing security to take a back seat (from the very beginning). Whether it is your beginning or not, sometimes companies […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might wonder how an attack against a large healthcare provider would expose both patient records and credit cards used in the cafeteria. Stay tuned to learn how not to follow in their footsteps. The attack on Banner Health began in mid June and was discovered only a few weeks later. However, in that short […]
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