Home Depot reported today that it spent $43 million in it’s third quarter dealing with the fallout of it’s security breach earlier this year. Of the $43 million, $15 million will be paid for out of its $100 million cyber liability policy. From the press release: The retailer warned that it expects “to incur significant […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CORRECTION: I said below that the hackers stole 25 GB of data. According to CSO Online, they RELEASED 25 GB of data and this is only a fraction of what they stole. UPDATE: Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) is now reporting additional information: The attackers stole 25 GB of data The malware destroyed data on an unknown […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the stakes go up, so do the creativity of the legal defenses. According to an article in Bloomberg news, Target says that they have no legal obligation to banks that claim they lost tens of millions of dollars as a result of last year’s breach and they want the judge to dismiss the case. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to multiple news reports (like BBC, Forbes, and Computerworld), Sony has been hacked again. This time they were hacked by the GOP (no, not that GOP, the Guardians of Peace). So, here is what Sony’s office looked like yesterday – and your’s might if you get hacked. Employees came into the office yesterday, turned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ars technica reported yesterday on a very sophisticated trojan that has been around, they say, since 2008, went dark in 2011 and came back in 2013. The trojan is comprised of 5 stages, all but the first of which is encrypted and is serially decrypted to avoid detection. The interesting part about it is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many of us try hard not to use our credit cards. As a result, we tend to use our debit cards frequently. Many debit cards carry either a Visa or Mastercard logo, which allows you to use the card as either a debit card or a credit card. No matter which option you choose, the […]
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