Viacom is playing down the significance of this, but that could just be damage control. One of our favorite security researchers, Chris Vickery, discovered yet another Amazon S3 storage bucket unprotected on Amazon. In this case, it did not contain non-public personal information of customers, according to Viacom. They touted this as a good thing, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the MANY lessons to be learned from the Equifax breach is how not to handle a breach. Here is just one of those lessons and it is a lesson for BOTH users and webmasters. NOTE: TO SEE A BIGGER IMAGE OF ANY OF THE PICTURES IN THIS POST, JUST CLICK ONCE ON THE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently Equifax had another, separate breach in March of this year, 5 months before the breach that they have already announced. Equifax hired the security firm Mandiant to check into both breaches, but since they have not said anything about this first breach, we really don’t know much about it. One assumes that this secret […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: Sep 15, 2017 – Equifax’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO) “retired” (AKA were fired) today, effective immediately, according to USA Today. Hopefully, the Board will ask the CEO to “retire” soon as well. CIO Susan Mauldin and CSO David Webb are taking the heat for not installing one patch, out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this week Equifax, the credit reporting giant, announced that hackers wandered inside their systems between May and July of this year. 143 million records were compromised. In addition to that, credit card numbers on 200,000 people were compromised and personal identifying information on 182,000 people were also released. Information compromised includes names, Social Security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the things that has always been a barrier for people who’s data was compromised during a breach is what lawyers call “Standing”. Standing derives from Article III of the U.S. Constitution. The courts have said that there are three requirements for “standing” to bring an action against another – Injury in fact, causation […]
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