A Russian hacker has confessed in court to hacking the DNC during last year’s election. The Russian web site that is reporting this has not been friendly to Putin, so there are lots of dimensions to this conversation. The web site says that Konstantin Kozlovsky stated that he was doing this on the direction of Russian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While people are purchasing Internet of Things devices at record numbers, most people are not looking at the security implications of them. Given that, here is something to ponder. Apple, like every other company on the planet, is trying to capitalize on the IoT craze. They sell software that allows developers to build software to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What would happen to your business if your credit card processor shut down? If you do online bill pay, what would happen if it shut down? Millions of people and businesses got to figure that one out this month when Paypal’s TIO Networks unit suddenly shut down. TIO does payment processing, both for merchants and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British shipping company Clarksons was hacked and decided not to pay the ransom. So far, nothing new. No ransom, no data. Well, maybe, they had backups that they could restore – and thumb their nose at the hackers. I think this is becoming a bigger problem for hackers. As a result, hackers are changing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This may turn out to be a lesson in Internet law for everyone. In October 2016, hackers breached Uber’s systems and made off with personal information for 57 million customers. They also made off with other information for 7 million Uber drivers and 600,000 drivers license numbers. Uber says that no socials or credit cards […]
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