When is a hack not a hack? When an Israeli company sells it as a feature. The company, NSO Group, sells the software, to governments among others. The software allows the attacker to: Control the camera Listen to the microphone Track the phone’s location Intercept text messages Intercept emails Download the calendar data Download your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like I write one of these every day. Today it is Millennium Hotels and Resorts, an international hotel chain based in Colorado. They are saying customers that used their credit cards at 14 of their hotels between early March and the end of June need to keep an eye on their credit card […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers claimed to have a group of NSA hacker tools available for sale on the dark web. The tools were supposedly stolen from the Equation Group which has been loosely linked to the NSA. If all of this is true, then the reality is that the NSA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Monday I wrote about two new Point of Sale breaches, one at HEI hotels and the other at Oracle. I said that it was only Monday and we already had two POS breaches. Well the week is almost over and I am going to bookend the week with another POS breach. Eddie Bauer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people have webcams installed in and around their house. For a Houston mother, the security that the cameras inside her house brought her was instantly turned into a nightmare recently. Another mother, in Oregon, was looking at satellite feeds of earth with her son when they started looking for more images. They came […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sage Group, an international cloud based accounting, payroll, HR and CRM services company acknowledged a breach this week. The breach affects around 300 companies based in the U.K. but the value of the breach is not in who got breached, but rather the lessons to be learned from it. The company provides accounting and payroll […]
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