So far this week (and it is only Monday), we have two POS breaches in the news. HEI Hotels and Resorts, which manages almost 60 hotels for Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and other chains announced that 20 of their locations, covering all of their brands, had suffered breaches. While they have not said how many cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was really only a matter of time. As the FBI (but interestingly NOT the CIA or NSA) keeps pressing for a crypto backdoor – or whatever they would prefer to call it to make it seem more palatable – and security experts keep saying this is a really, REALLY bad idea, the universe decided […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the Target, Home Depot, Anthem and Office of Personnel Management breaches, among other large breaches, get most of the headlines, according to Travelers Insurance, 62% of all breaches hit small and medium size companies. Those statistics only cover the 34,000+ known incidents per day that are reported. Many more are undetected or intentionally not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jonathan Zdziarski wrote about an implementation challenge for the security conscious among us. While Whatsapp does delete the message when you tell it to, it leaves artifacts behind. Whatsapp and other phone apps use the SQLLite database. SQLLite, likely to reduce wear in your phone’s memory, doesn’t actually delete the message, but rather just marks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given the number of breaches that have happened in the last couple of years, many people have probably forgotten about the Scottrade breach. To refresh your memory, back in 2013 hackers breached the Scottrade customer database and had their way with the credentials of 4 million plus customers. Between September 2013 and February 2014, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2013 a disgruntled Citibank employee decided to get even. Lennon Ray Brown, 38, who worked for Citi during 2012 and 2013 in the Dallas area, decided to teach the bank a lesson. On December 23, 2013, Brown sent a set of commands to 10 of the Citi global core routers. Those commands erased […]
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