While we focused during the election on possibly classified emails on Hillary Clinton’s mail server, in Europe they have their own version. Shodan, the IoT search engine turned up on an Internet connected disk drive that was not password protected. While Trump says that Clinton should be thrown in jail, in Europe they said it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: While the ticket kiosks are back online, the hacker is saying that if the Muni doesn’t fix security problems and pay the ransom by Friday that they are going to release the data that they have taken. Passengers entering the San Francisco Muni rail system were greeted by the message “You Hacked” on Friday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to remember history very well, so, I guess, we are doomed to repeat it. A Chinese company, ADUPS, makes a technology that a number of phone manufacturers buy and use. It allows the manufacturer to update the firmware in a phone or IoT device over the air (meaning, I assume, over the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) announced this week that hackers compromised point of sale systems at a number of their properties. The properties include Madison Square Garden, Beacon Theatre and Radio City Music Hall among venues. One more time, it appears that the hack happened with the point of sale system that runs the concession stands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Michael Page/ The Page Group is a family of international recruiters operating in 35 countries and employing over 5,000 people and based in the United Kingdom. Like many companies, PageGroup outsourced at least part of their IT operations; in their case to another huge firm, CapGemini. Earlier this month, Troy Hunt (a Microsoft MVP and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think this is obvious, but just in case it is not, California wants to make this clear. It used to be, in California, that if you had sensitive data encrypted and that data was stolen, you didn’t have to tell people because, after all, it was encrypted. But there is a rub with […]
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