In what has been a monument to how NOT to handle a data breach, Wendy’s has again revised the number of restaurants affected by hackers. Wendy’s initially refused to release any information about how big the hack was, although bankers were saying that this was hitting them harder than the Home Depot breach did. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, you don’t have to check your calendar, it is not April Fools Day and Yes, they really do want to do that. Along with the rest of your medical devices. Some of you may remember that when Dick Cheney was Veep, they modified his pacemaker so that the bad guys couldn’t take him out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr of the District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia says that the FBI can hack your computer without a warrant. Judge Morgan said that the defendant “has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer”, in part because the FBI only collected limited information. The defendant is involved in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carbonite: Carbonite sent out an email to all customers to reset their passwords. They claim that they have not been hacked but that they are seeing a large number of attempts to log in by third parties. They say that based on their security review, they have no evidence that they have been hacked. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several times about the fight between Cottage Health System and Columbia Casualty, a division of CNA Insurance. In 2013 Cottage’s systems were breached and the private information of thousands of patients was publicly disclosed. Their insurance company paid $4.125 million for costs related to the breach, including a class action lawsuit. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is a lot of attention focused on digital currency and the potential it represents – maybe too much attention. In May I wrote about the Bitcoin exchange Gatecoin, that was hacked to the tune of $2 million. This week hackers made off with with $50 million in another virtual currency, Ether, but this time […]
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