AgentRun is a startup that helps independent insurance agents and brokers manage customer relationships (CRM) and they are the latest company to do the perp walk for leaving an Amazon storage bucket unprotected. Compromised were thousands of client’s sensitive data files like insurance policy documents, health data, medical data, social security and medicare cards, blank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is a term in the cyber security world called dwell time. Dwell time is the amount of time between the time an attacker breaks in and the good guys figure that out. In 2011 the average dwell time was over 400 days. According to a just released Mandiant report, that number is now only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times is reporting that The Hudson’s Bay Company that owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor confirmed that some number of stores run under these names and also Saks Off 5th were hacked and 5 million credit cards are available to be sold on the black market. The breach is one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orbitz announced today that hackers accessed customer data including credit cards submitted to one of their websites between January 2016 and June 2016 and data on an Orbitz partner web site between January 2016 and December 2017 – two years worth of data. They estimate it to be around 880,000 cards, but they, apparently, don’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With all the news lately about the Russians trying to change the outcome of the elections (like, I might add, the U.S. has been trying to do around the world for decades – think of the Shah in Iran, the Congo elections, Chile and many others – see here), the real question is can the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here’s a thought. If the lawsuit against Yahoo succeeds and the award is $10 per victim, that would be a $30 billion judgement. The breach, you may remember, was publicly disclosed after Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo but before the deal closed. As a result of the announcement the price was lowered by $350 million, […]
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