The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group admitted that their credit card system at an unknown number of their hotels was hacked and credit cards compromised AFTER they were outed by Krebs On Security. The upscale hotel chain, where rooms at the New York property start at $850 a night, would be a great target for hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Register is reporting that Anthem refused to allow U.S. government auditors to audit their systems as required as part of a contract that Anthem has with the U.S. government. This news is coming out after Anthem was hacked of some 88 million customer records. The Office Of Personnel Management Inspector General audits insurers who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I suspected when Apple Pay was released, the hackers did not just give up and say “this is too hard” and all get jobs at Burger King. No, instead they said, what vulnerabilities does Apple Pay have? The first one (at least that we know of) is something called yellow path. The hackers have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just wouldn’t buy their computers. I wrote the other day about the problem Lenovo is having. They contracted with a company called Superfish and installed some crapware on your computer (if you bought a Lenovo consumer grade computer) that shoved ads at you. That wouldn’t be that much of a problem – everyone from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a couple of days ago that The Intercept reported that the SIM and banking card maker Gemalto was hacked by GCHQ and NSA. Well, now, after just a couple of days, Gemalto says not to worry, everything is cool. We looked at our logs and while GCHQ might have gotten into our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo is getting more than it’s share of attention these days. Microsoft has released an update to it’s free Windows Defender anti-malware software that classifies Lenovo’s Superfish as the malicious software that it is, removes the certificate from the Windows certificate store (which is the hard part, so yeah, Microsoft – and I don’t say […]
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