While OPM still garners most of the attention and the number of potentially compromised records continues to rise – that number now could, possibly, be as high as 32 million – 1 in 10 Americans, other reports show that credentials for other government users can be found on Pastebin. Part of the problem is password […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a slightly different version of a breach. A Montefiore Medical Center employee stole information on patients and sold it to her confederates for as little as $3 a record. According to ABC News, during 2012 and 2013, 32 year old Monique Walker printed out thousands of patient’s records including names, socials, birth dates and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A new trend is emerging with hackers. Rather than going after large companies like Target and Home Depot (not that those guys are now safe), hackers are going after the vendors that support small companies. In this case, eCellar, a vendor that provides point of sale software to many California wineries, has told their customers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Forbes (and the rest of the media) is reporting that LastPass has put out a press release saying that they suffered a breach. The good news is that LastPass claims that they never have your master password. They also say that they don’t have any evidence that password files were downloaded. That doesn’t mean that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Kaspersky Labs, who first reported the existence of the Duqu2 malware that attacked both Kaspersky itself and three hotels that hosted the Iranian nuclear talks, is now reporting that part of the attack uses malware laced drivers signed with digital certificates from Foxconn, who is best known as Apple’s contract manufacturer in China (see Kaspersky’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The OPM has admitted that the 4 million record number is way low, the number is likely around 14 million and the SF-86 data, which OPM initially said was not compromised, was, in fact, hacked. In a statement to Bloomberg News on Friday, agency spokesperson Samuel Schumach (see article) said Investigators have “a high degree […]
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