Ancient Chinese Proverb: May You Live In Interesting Times. Well welcome to interesting times. Today, Facebook said that the accounts of 50 million users were compromised. The hackers compromised the security “tokens” that Facebook uses to authenticate users and not the passwords themselves. Facebook revoked those users “tokens” to stop them from continuing to be used. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Web Attack Will Crash Your iPhone, iPad or Mac A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your i-device with just 15 lines of code. The code exploits a weakness in iOS’ web rendering engine WebKit, which Apple mandates all apps and browsers use. Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In June Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act which is the only law in the country that offers consumers far more control over their data in the hands of third parties such as Internet based companies. Now AB 1906 is headed to Governor Brown to sign. If he does, and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A robust incident response program and a well trained incident response team know exactly what to do and what not to do. One critical task in incident response is to preserve evidence. Evidence may need to be preserved based on specific legal requirements, such as for defense contractors. In other cases, evidence must be preserved […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Law enforcement in general and the FBI in particular have been talking about the “going dark” problem caused by encryption on phones. Except, maybe, that isn’t the biggest problem that law enforcement is facing. The Center for Strategic and International Studies just released a study based on interviews […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adams County, Wisconsin is now facing a crisis of confidence and likely some lawsuits as well. Why? On March 28, 2018, the county says, it uncovered “questionable activity” on county computer systems. Three months later, in late June, their investigation was complete. The result: 258, 120 people had their data illegally accessed. Data included protected […]
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