Be Thankful That You Are Not Equifax – Costs Reach $1.4 Billion So Far Two years after the big breach, Equifax reported financials for the first quarter. They reported a loss of $555.9 million compared to a net income of $90 million for the same period in 2018 on basically flat revenue. Equifax had $125 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The fourth annual benchmark on cyber resilience authored by Larry Ponemon and paid for by IBM shows that 77% of the organizations surveyed do not have a cybersecurity incident response program applied consistently across the organization. Does your organization have an effective, trained and tested cybersecurity incident response program (CSISP) that works across all parts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week, I wrote about the Wipro hack (if you didn’t see that post, click on the search box and enter Wipro). While Wipro is being pretty close-mouthed about what happened due to the inevitable lawsuits, SLA complaints and even claims of breached contracts, it isn’t stopping the media from reporting on it. In fact, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gee, in one sense, that is not a big surprise. On the other hand, given all the money and effort, you would think we would be winning. According to security vendor Carbon Black, in just the last 3 months, they found that the percentage of time hackers used methods to cover their tracks jumped 5 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting combination of countries. Multi-billion dollar Taiwan based computer make Asus makes a wide range of computers sold worldwide. Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky, whom the White House says is a threat to national security and should be banned (which I basically think is mostly true), identified that hackers attacked Asus’s software update […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stanford University is considered is fairly good college. They have some well known grads such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google founders), Herbert Hoover, Peter Thiel (Paypal founder), John Steinbeck and Sandra Day O’Connor. But apparently when it comes to software, they, themselves, are not so good. A little over a year ago they […]
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