For anyone who has filled out the federal student financial aid form called FAFSA, they know it is a pretty daunting task. Well now it has become a bit more daunting. Kind of like the problem the IRS had a few years ago with the tax transcript retrieval tool where hackers used the tool to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Evan Schuman wrote an opinion piece in Computerworld yesterday that I found very interesting. Neimans suffered a credit card breach in 2013 that would be considered small by today’s standards. Initially they reported that a million cards were compromised; later that number was reduced to about 375,000. About 9,000 of those cards were used for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg published a brief on the issue of border searches that was written for them by the international law firm of Morrison Foerster on the subject of border searches. Given that lawyers wrote the piece, their concern is about protecting attorney-client confidential information at the border, but the subject applies to everyone. According to Customs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We think of a virtual machine as a way to isolate one system from another and, in general, it works well. But not always. Pwn2Own is a hacking contest that is part of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This year researchers who were members of Qihoo 360’s security team figured out a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A U.S. citizen of Ethiopian heritage was hacked a few years ago by the Ethiopian government here in the U.S. The victim, who goes by the pseudonym of Mr. Kidane to protect his family here and in Ethiopia, is being represented by the EFF, the Jones Day law firm and the law firm Robins Kaplan. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this month I wrote about Stewart International Airport in New York leaving a backup drive exposed to the Internet without a password or encryption, exposing extremely sensitive information (see post here). Now it has been revealed that an unnamed DoD officer, possibly a Lt. Colonel, had a backup drive with thousands of sensitive documents exposed […]
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