Anthem Blue Cross, you likely remember, was one of the first “Blues” to admit that they had lost control of the data on their subscribers to the tune of around 79 million people. After Anthem admitted that, a number of other insurance companies – both Blues and others – admitted that they, too, had been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in April, General Kelly, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in Congressional hearings said that non-citizens might be detained or denied entry to the US if they didn’t let Homeland Security rummage through their electronic devices and maybe even make copies of them at the border. He seemed to indicate that this wasn’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chipolte seems to be challenged to catch a break. After the E.coli outbreak in 2015 and shareholder lawsuits, Chipolte tried to make a comeback. Last month the announced that they had been hacked and credit cards compromised. Chipolte hasn’t said which restaurants were affected or how many cards were compromised, but they have announced the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA has two roles in life – OFFENSIVE cyber and DEFENSIVE cyber. The NSA spends, according to some estimates, 90% of its cyber budget on offensive cyber. NSA, in its alter ego Cyber Command, is charged with defensive cyber. What this means is that when NSA finds a bug like the one that was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since we have been talking a lot about ransomware lately, here is a slightly different twist to it. A few weeks ago, hackers stole the whole upcoming season of Orange is the New Black and leaked 10 episodes on the Internet after the studio refused to pay their ransom. Likely this had a significant effect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While President Trump continues to deny that Russia interfered with the U.S. Elections, even though many other very knowledgeable people say the opposite, other countries are not so casual about it. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency chief says that Russia gathered large amounts of data in cyber attacks and no one knows what they will do […]
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