Target announced that they were breached in December of 2013 – about 22 months ago. This week a federal judge certified a class action against Target by a number of banks. Target says they are “disappointed” by the decision. This comes a month after Target agreed to pay Visa up to $67 million to settle […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple and the Department of Justice are not getting along these days. The DoJ wants Apple to feed them real time iMessage traffic for someone the DoJ is quietly investigating. Apple says that the way their system is designed, this is not possible. If the user stores their messages in iCloud, they can give the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Pierluigi Paganini, a fellow security blogger in Italy, wrote about a situation with Vodaphone where a Vodaphone employee rumaged through a journalist’s texts and phone calls to try and find the source of a story that the journalist wrote which was critical of Vodaphone’s security. The journalist, Natalie O’Brien, pictured above, described it as “creepy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As every traveler knows, if you lock your suitcase, you need to use a TSA approved lock or else they will break your lock if they want in. That was OK (maybe; those locks are not very secure anyway) until someone at the TSA allowed the Washington Post to photograph their master key (why, I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Office Of Civil Rights (OCR) has been pretty quiet these last couple of years regarding HIPAA audits, but that may be about to change. OCR’s staff is small, so they have hired a contractor, FCI, according to the Federal Register. In an interview, deputy director Deven McGraw says that they will be starting up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Price Waterhouse surveyed 500 business executives, law enforcement services and government agencies and here are some of the results: 28 percent say that their security leaders make NO presentations to the board ever 26 percent say that their boards receive a single security presentation per year. Neither of these answers warms my heart, but they […]
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