As I wrote about the other day, service providers look like they are the new target of opportunity for hackers. Until the other day, PNI Digital Media, owned by Staples, ran kiosks in places like CVS, Walmart and Costco, where people could print their digital pictures. The place on their web site has now removed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Add UCLA to the list of health care providers that have been hacked. UCLA says they discovered the hacking last September, but it was not until May that they discovered that the hackers had gotten into the part of the system that stores patient records. Even now they are not sure if the hackers took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Knowledge Based Authentication – using information that only you know – used to be a very popular method for validating that you are you. Examples of this are when a customer service agent asks you for your birth date, last four of your social or where you were born. The credit bureaus even sell that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides. Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge correspondence between Mendi […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at FireEye have uncovered another zero day Flash exploit from within the ruins of the Hacking Team data dump. Adobe says that they will patch it some time this week. Adobe also says that the flaw could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Like the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells hacking tools to the FBI and DEA, as well as less friendly governments such as Sudan, was hacked this week. The hackers stole about 400 gigabytes of internal emails, financial documents, source code and other goodies. The hackers quickly published the data that was hacked, presumably to embarrass […]
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