I wrote about 21st Century Oncology in March (see post here) when the FBI came knocking on their door. The result? 2.2 million records compromised. At that time they said that they likely did not have enough insurance to cover the costs of the breach. Fast forward six months. Law360 is reporting that Charter Oak […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were not paranoid before, you may be now. According to a lawsuit filed last month, the Golden State Warrior’s app turns on your phone’s microphone in order to figure out where the owner is, in order to serve ads to the user. The suit names the NBA team, Yinzcam, Inc., which developed the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian’s web site is not back with Akamai, but rather with Google’s Project Shield. Project Shield is an effort by Google to support free speech to journalists around the world. If they accept your web site, there is no cost. And Google probably has a fair amount of both bandwidth and brainpower to stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What if a technically sophisticated adversary, such as Russia or China wanted to create chaos in the United States – how would he or she do it? What if a technically sophisticated lone wolf hacker wanted to do it, is it possible? My answer would be: Possible – absolutely! Probable: I don’t know. Concerning: You […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is always rewarding when well respected people write published articles supporting an argument that you have been making for years. I guess I was just slightly ahead of my time. In this case, my point has been that law firms are a huge target for hackers – and not just the large law firms. […]
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