After a horrifying independent review of the Navy’s current cybersecurity posture, the Navy asked Congress to approve a new position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy to handle cyber. This comes after the Navy eliminated the role of CIO last year. Congress turned them down, so now they are going around Congress to create a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unencrypted Biometric Data Database Found A database called Biostar2, of the fingerprints and face Scans of over a million people that are used by police, defense contractors and banks was found unencrypted and exposed on the Internet. That was bad enough. Then the article said that the database included user names, passwords and other personal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are nothing if not creative. Combine that with businesses not paying enough attention to security and you get a mess. Researchers discovered an unprotected database with over 5 million client records belonging to Choice Hotels. The hotel says there is good news. Only 700,000 of those records were from real customers. Doesn’t that make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The issue of foreign influence in US Presidential elections has been and continues to be a hot button. Sometimes the focus on election hacking is on hacking the ballot box, but while this is possible, it would be very hard to do that on a national scale, so it is unlikely that this is the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security vendor ESet interviewed 625 business owners and executives to understand their readiness for California’s new privacy law that goes into effect on January 1, 2020. What most businesses are missing is that Nevada’s version of the law goes into effect on October 1, 2019. Most of the respondents were from small businesses, some of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Equifax Agrees to Pay UP TO $700 Million to Settle Breach Lawsuits First – the settlement hasn’t been agreed to by the court yet, so this is all speculation. Of the $700 million pot, at least $300 million is set aside to pay damages to consumers. Another $100 million plus is to pay for credit […]
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