As the Ashley Madison data is more widely circulated and people have a chance to digest it, consequences are beginning to add up which will have a negative impact on the parent company Avid Life Media, likely for years to come. Granted this is a somewhat unusual situation, so some of the consequences may not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Wyndham Hotel chain was hacked several times going back as far as 2012. The FTC came after the hotel chain using Section 5 of the FTC Act, claiming unfair business practices. Usually what happens in these cases – and there have been a number of them – is that the company and the FTC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While hacking credit cards for fun and profit is still a popular pastime, two additional hacking models need to be considered. The first additional model is the Anthem Blue Cross or Office Of Personnel Management model. In those cases, hackers are looking to amass vast amounts of data on as many people as possible. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The AP is reporting that the IRS didn’t really know how many taxpayers had their information stolen by hackers who used the Get Transcript web site. Originally, the IRS said that hackers tried to get information for about 200,000 taxpayers and were successful in getting information for 100,000 of them. Originally, they said the hack […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]People say that it is too hard to stop the bad guys. Well, you can make it a lot harder on them if you don’t just play into their hands. Ubiquiti Networks, a tech company who makes wireless equipment, is publicly traded and had revenue of $150 million in the quarter ending Sep. 30, 2014, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who use Bit Torrent to download pirated movies, this post is for you. Microsoft has turned every Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro user into a Bit Torrent node of sorts, delivering Microsoft updates to their millions of customers. Like other Windows 10 features (WiFi Sense, for example), I am […]
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