Not surprisingly, the fallout from the OPM breach continues. Here are a few new items in the news after OPM Director Archuletta was basically fired. The OPM has changed it’s privacy policy to allow investigators to probe it’s databases. This happened after the discovery of “significant entryways” for hackers in at least 3 more databases. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The media has been reporting the demonstration done by two security researchers and a Wired magazine reporter where they completely controlled a Jeep, including the brakes and accelerator. To quote Wired: I WAS DRIVING 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Ashley Madison web site, where people go to cheat on their spouses, was hacked last week. This is an interesting situation for a number of reasons. First, a little background. The Ashley Madison web site is owned by Avid Life Media (ALM), which also runs several other web sites – Cougar Life and Established […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I wrote about the other day, service providers look like they are the new target of opportunity for hackers. Until the other day, PNI Digital Media, owned by Staples, ran kiosks in places like CVS, Walmart and Costco, where people could print their digital pictures. The place on their web site has now removed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Add UCLA to the list of health care providers that have been hacked. UCLA says they discovered the hacking last September, but it was not until May that they discovered that the hackers had gotten into the part of the system that stores patient records. Even now they are not sure if the hackers took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the fallout of the Hacking Team breach (see post) continues, the Mozilla Foundation is taking the bull by the horns. Right now there are at least two Flash zero day vulnerabilities that Adobe has not patched. As people continue to go through the Hacking Team data dump, we may find more. As a result, […]
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