HBO has joined the ranks of Sony and Netflix and has had their new, unreleased shows hacked and posted on the dark web. HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler sent an email to employees saying, in part, “there has been a cyber incident directed at the company”, which I assume, means that they were hacked. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fedex was one of the companies that announced last month that they were affected by the Petya un-ransomware (it operated like ransomware, but there was no decryption key, even if you paid the ransom). It is interesting that most of the time there is some sort of malware attack you do not get much information, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that large companies could control the news cycle. Used to be, that is. Now, with social media, in reality, no one is in control of the news cycle. Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, whom you would think would know a thing or two about the news […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Different sources are reporting different numbers, but the personal information on between 6 million and 14 million Verizon Wireless customers has been exposed. The information includes name, address, phone number, general information on calls made to customer service and, in some cases, the user’s security PIN. The details of this are going to sound all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who read my blog regularly, it will not be news that I am not a huge fan of Bitcoin. There have been numerous bitcoin exchange hacks and now we have another, different attack. A Reddit user reported losing 13 Bitcoin – at current value about $35,000 or so – due to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like every day we see another credit card breach in the news. Recently the retail chain Buckles said they had a breach. Sabre, the airlines reservation system founded by American Airlines suffered a breach and as a result, so did a number of their customers including Hard Rock and Lowes Hotels. There are […]
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