You might think that after the Panama Papers breach in which the law firm of Mossack Fonseca was hacked and 11 million documents exposed – including ones that forced the prime minister of Iceland to resign and the prime minister of Pakistan to be removed from office – that law firms around the world would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to reports – and denied by the government – The US Department of the Treasury is either creatively stretching the definition of certain laws or outright breaking them. It is likely that we will hear more about this over time. The story goes like this. There is a part of Treasury called FINCEN or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I write this, a couple of very large and very significant breaches have recently either taken place or been revealed – specifically Yahoo’s breach impacting 3 billion users and Equifax’s breach affecting at least 145 million. But there are countless other breaches every day – in fact so many that most don’t even make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time, Equifax is in the news – but they are not alone! Users thought that Equifax had been hacked again because when customers went to a particular help page on their web site, they were redirected to a page directing them to download a malicious, fake, Adobe Flash update. Hopefully, no one is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Federal government has demonstrated its inability to keep its own house in order at the same time that it expects citizens and businesses to trust it with very sensitive information. From the SEC’s EDGAR breach, the OPM breach and others, add the FDIC. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that the Federal Deposit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an interesting story with lots of twists and turns. And lessons. Ryan Lin, 24, of Newton, Massachusetts, was arrested last week on charges of cyber stalking. How he got caught was interesting. And a lesson. The case goes back to April of 2016 when Lin responded to a Craigslist ad and moved in […]
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