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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the OPM continues to muddle around in dealing with their breach and telling the public what happened, more news stories are coming out. First, the White House ordered agencies to tighten things up in a security sprint. While using agile terminology is nifty, my guess is that most of these agencies are more familiar […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gene Kaspersky, head of the Russian anti-malware vendor and security research labs reported yesterday that the malware that infected his labs last year was also found … drum roll … at the hotels for the delegates to the Iranian nuclear talks (see article). Kaspersky reported yesterday (see article) that their lab was the victim of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The government seems to be avoiding telling us what information was taken. This could be because they don’t know – or because they do know. One speculation that keeps coming up, and that the OPM has not denied, is that the hackers got SF-86 data. If that is true, that is a problem. I will […]
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