The AP is reporting that the IRS didn’t really know how many taxpayers had their information stolen by hackers who used the Get Transcript web site. Originally, the IRS said that hackers tried to get information for about 200,000 taxpayers and were successful in getting information for 100,000 of them. Originally, they said the hack […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE August 19, 2015 – As I predicted, there are now web sites which allow you to search the Ashley Madison data. Check this Wired article for links: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/check-loved-one-exposed-ashley-madison-hack/ . The hackers who broke into the Ashley Madison web site last month threatened to make the data that they stole public if Ashley Madison’s parent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have talked about before, the PNI division of Staples provides digital photo kiosks and online printing to the likes of Costco, Walgreens, CVS and Walmart and announced they had been breached in July of this year. This resulted in all of these customers taking their photo processing sites off line. Costco had previously […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are so used to breaches in the news that we are blind to the likely way larger number of breaches that never make the news. In this case, United Airlines was hacked, likely by the same Chinese group that hacked OPM and Anthem. Bloomberg is reporting that the attackers stole manifests, among other data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the Ashley Madison breach, CNN read through the Ashley Madison license agreement. Here are a few tidbits from their reading of the agreement. 1. They can sell your personally identifiable information in connection with the sale of the business or sale of the assets. If this was Facebook, we might not care. If we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stagefright is an Android subsystem that processes video in your phone. Stagefright has been around since Android 2.2. That means that the potential to affect around 950 million Android phones exist. The bugs (there are several of them) that researchers have discovered are really nasty because at least one of them does not even require […]
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