Two of the largest real estate title insurance companies in the United States seem to be having a problem keeping their customers’ data secure. Last month Fidelity Title took its systems offline for a week or two as they wrestled with a cyberattack that delayed real estate closings and forced lenders to resort to manual […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are advertising a service on the encrypted, Russian, messaging app Telegram that would let you buy a full identity for between $8 and $40. In crypto. The company, USiSLookups, a play on the data broker USInfoSearch, allows you to look up virtually anyone. In just a few moments. The Telegram channel includes a small […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several times about the need to start thinking about post-quantum crypto. At this point, “Q-Day” is somewhere between this year and ten years from now. If you believe my blog last week, Q-Day could be today. NIST has published draft post quantum standards, but there is a lot more to do besides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meta Launches Paid Facebook/Instagram Option in EU To satisfy EU privacy laws, Meta is going to offer an ad free paid version of Facebook and Instagram in the EU/EEA and Switzerland for (e ) 9.99 on the web and (e ) 12.99 for the apps since the have to give the app store 30 percent. […]
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