Orbitz announced today that hackers accessed customer data including credit cards submitted to one of their websites between January 2016 and June 2016 and data on an Orbitz partner web site between January 2016 and December 2017 – two years worth of data. They estimate it to be around 880,000 cards, but they, apparently, don’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With all the news lately about the Russians trying to change the outcome of the elections (like, I might add, the U.S. has been trying to do around the world for decades – think of the Shah in Iran, the Congo elections, Chile and many others – see here), the real question is can the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here’s a thought. If the lawsuit against Yahoo succeeds and the award is $10 per victim, that would be a $30 billion judgement. The breach, you may remember, was publicly disclosed after Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo but before the deal closed. As a result of the announcement the price was lowered by $350 million, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What happens if you are a restaurant and your cash register system gets hit by a virus? Short Answer: You close the doors and turn off the lights. That is exactly what happened hundreds of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada. Apparently Tim Hortons is something like a Dunkin Donuts serving coffee, donuts and some light […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the head of cybersecurity at DHS said the details of which states were compromised is classified, she admitted that 21 states were targeted during the 2016 elections and that some of them were penetrated. Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said 2016 was a wakeup call and now it is up to the government(s) to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the leadership at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has changed to a more business friendly leader, the new head of the CFPB, Mick Mulvaney is not going to move forward with a full scale probe of how Equifax failed to protect the information of over a hundred million consumers. The former director, Richard Cordray, […]
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