A Pakistani hacker who last week put up 600 million hacked accounts has added another hundred million records plus to the pie. The first batch included 617 million records from 16 hacked sites — Dubsmash – 162 million accounts My FitnessPal – 151 million accounts MyHeritage – 92 million ShareThis – 41 million HauteLook – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about 4 different cases where courts are moving in the direction of making it easier for plaintiffs to sue companies in case of a breach. Now we have another situation. In the past, judges have approved settlements that only made the lawyers rich. The plaintiffs sometimes got, literally, nothing. That is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions. The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights is increasing enforcement actions against health care providers and their vendors (known as business associates). While one might have suspected that enforcement actions would be down under this administration, in fact, the opposite is true and fines are up. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Marriott. The breach of Marriott’s Starwood division systems exposed data on 500 million clients and triggered multiple lawsuits and investigations. That breach was four years in the making and across two different management teams – first at Starwood and then at Marriott. Undetected. This week 1-800-Flowers announced that it too was breached. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This could be a very interesting lawsuit and we will watch it and see where it goes. In 2017 Adobe released Premiere Pro Creative Cloud 2017 version 11.1.0 , Apparently, like a lot of software, this product was not bug free. In fact, a feature called clean cache not only cleaned the cache of Premiere […]
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