As the stakes go up, so do the creativity of the legal defenses. According to an article in Bloomberg news, Target says that they have no legal obligation to banks that claim they lost tens of millions of dollars as a result of last year’s breach and they want the judge to dismiss the case. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said in a previous post, it certainly appears that Sony is in the midst of a serious IT problem. Sony has been extremely quiet except to say that they have a “system disruption” that they are “working diligently to repair”. The important question to ask is “If this happened to our company, how […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An Article last week in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette written by the law firm of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, stated what I would think is obvious, but apparently not. 78 percent of global dealmakers report that cybersecurity isn’t a part of the due diligence process before mergers and acquisitions. And why, you ask, is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to multiple news reports (like BBC, Forbes, and Computerworld), Sony has been hacked again. This time they were hacked by the GOP (no, not that GOP, the Guardians of Peace). So, here is what Sony’s office looked like yesterday – and your’s might if you get hacked. Employees came into the office yesterday, turned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ars technica reported yesterday on a very sophisticated trojan that has been around, they say, since 2008, went dark in 2011 and came back in 2013. The trojan is comprised of 5 stages, all but the first of which is encrypted and is serially decrypted to avoid detection. The interesting part about it is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many of us try hard not to use our credit cards. As a result, we tend to use our debit cards frequently. Many debit cards carry either a Visa or Mastercard logo, which allows you to use the card as either a debit card or a credit card. No matter which option you choose, the […]
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