Application penetration testing or pen test is more critical than ever and news today is only the most recent example of why. Spiral Toys makes a line of Internet connected teddy bears (aka smart bears, I guess) that allows parents and children who were physically apart to share personal messages. Unfortunately for the purchasers of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare, the company that helps web sites perform when under stress, including when under denial of service attacks, was the victim of a self induced cyber breach. For those who are not familiar with Cloudflare, it acts as a front end to a customer company’s web servers. With Cloudflare in front of a company’s servers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Right after Yahoo announced all of the different breaches, the expectation was that Verizon merger offer would be modified or totally go away. Well, there is some news and it is probably not as bad as it could be. Many people were suggesting that the price would go down by a billion dollars and that Verizon […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At least in Pennsylvania, a court says the answer is no. Here are the details. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was hacked and employee’s personal information was taken and used to file phony tax refunds. Information taken included names, socials, birth dates, addresses and salaries. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that employees […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anonymous, the hacking collective, is very unpredictable. Apparently they do not like child porn and the people who sell it. Over the weekend, the hosting service Freedom Hosting II – a very large TOR hosting provider – was taken out by Anonymous. TOR is often used by child porn purveyors to hide their tracks. Sites […]
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