While we all know about the Equifax breach last year that compromised the data of almost 150 million people and businesses, until today we did not know about the Equifax hack two years earlier. In the earlier hack, former employees – actually Chinese spies – stole thousands of pages of documents including plans for new […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Using Fake Linkedin Profiles to Recruit Americans as Spies US intelligence officials are warning LinkedIn users that China is being “super aggressive” at recruiting Americans with access to government and commeACrcial secrets. The Chinese are creating fake LinkedIn profiles, friending people and trolling to see if they would be valuable if flipped or conned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A robust incident response program and a well trained incident response team know exactly what to do and what not to do. One critical task in incident response is to preserve evidence. Evidence may need to be preserved based on specific legal requirements, such as for defense contractors. In other cases, evidence must be preserved […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Judge Koh, who has been involved in many high profile high tech lawsuits such as Apple v. Samsung, gave final approval to a $115 million settlement for damages as a result of the Anthem breach. While this is only one lawsuit – I am sure there are others – it is important if only for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lack of Vendor Cyber Risk Management Hurts over 750 Banks TCM Bank, a company that helps hundreds of small banks issue credit cards had a problem with their third party vendor – the bank’s fourth party vendor risk. The small bank wants to issue credit cards so they hire TCM and TCM hires someone else […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I wrote last week, LabCorp, the mega medical lab testing company (mega as in revenue around $10 billion last year) was breached and they have provided some interesting insights as they have been forced to detail to the SEC some of what happened last week when they had to shut down large parts of […]
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