The NSA hasn’t had a great few years. And it isn’t getting any better. First it was Snowden and dumping documents on seemingly a weekly basis. There were two schools of thought regarding Snowden. Some said he was a hero for disclosing illegal government actions Others said that he was a traitor for disclosing national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reports are coming out that the Trump organization suffered a hack, Bigly, as the President would say, around four years ago and, we assume, did not know about it until a week ago. The only alternative explanation is that they did know about and chose to let the hacker stay inside their network for four […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of weeks ago I wrote about yet another breach at a law firm. This time the firm was Appleby, a law firm based in Bermuda and home to the rich and famous – especially those that are looking for tax shelters and the similar. Most of these tax shelters are legal but the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this week Merck said that the NotPetya is going to cost them and the numbers are staggering. In last Friday’s earnings call Merck said that NotPetya has impacted third quarter results to the tune of around $300 million. That includes $135 million in lost sales and $175 million in costs. But that is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Does your organization allow thumb drives? Do you use them at home? What do you store on them? What follows could be called nightmare on Main Street. A private citizen found a thumb drive (AKA flash drive or memory stick) and did what any smart cyber security aware person would do. He took it to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think that after the Panama Papers breach in which the law firm of Mossack Fonseca was hacked and 11 million documents exposed – including ones that forced the prime minister of Iceland to resign and the prime minister of Pakistan to be removed from office – that law firms around the world would […]
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