Given the number of breaches that have happened in the last couple of years, many people have probably forgotten about the Scottrade breach. To refresh your memory, back in 2013 hackers breached the Scottrade customer database and had their way with the credentials of 4 million plus customers. Between September 2013 and February 2014, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more and more breaches happen every month, businesses everywhere need to consider what would happen if their company had a breach. Here is advice from the national law firm of Perkins Coie. Is the breach reportable? The list of data items which, when compromised, triggers a reportable breach keeps growing. For example, this year Illinois […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A bug in a software library used in a wide variety of communications products such as cell towers, routers and switches and even the radio chips inside of cell phones was recently announced. The library in questions implements standard known as ASN.1 and was developed by Objective Systems. While we are all used to, for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March the FBI announced that one of the hackers who broke into a number of celebrities ‘ phones in 2014 pleaded guilty. Ryan Collins, 36, of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one felony count of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by illegally accessing a protected computer to obtain information. This month, Illinois resident […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are numerous stories in the media regarding ransomware. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was operating with pen and pencil for 10 days last February when they were hit with a ransomware attack. They paid the attackers 40 bitcoins and got access to their data back. In March, the Medstar healthcare chain in the Washington DC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Whenever I read the news that a data breach has occurred, my first two questions are “how big is it?” and “How long did it go for”. For example, the Omni Hotel chain announced a breach this week and they said it affected 49 out of their 60 hotels, affected 50,000 customer cards, was detected […]
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