If you bought a car in the last few years, it is possible that your data is available for sale on the black market. Names, addresses, phone numbers and socials for both customers and employees for over a hundred car dealerships were exposed. For how long and to whom is unknown. The system that got […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time an open source database, MongoDB, is the source of another huge breach. But it isn’t Mongo’s fault. It wasn’t configured correctly. Human error one more time. OK, what are the details? And is it almost 60 million or 260 million? Modern Business Solutions apparently provides data storage services, although they have refused […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While everyone has heard about the DNC and DNCC hacks and the hack of the Hillary Clinton campaign emails, there was another recent email hack – at Salesforce.com . The attack was not to obtain credit cards, nor was it to steal customer lists or the sales forecast. This time the hacker wanted to know […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week. And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers. Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies. The attack against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]cYou may need a scorecard to keep track of the players, but ponder this. Codman Square Health Center in Boston reported a breach to HHS. However, it was not THEIR system that was breached. Codman participates in a regional Health Information Exchange, the New England Healthcare Exchange, a mandated mechanism for doctors to exchange information […]
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