Mobile finance apps are very popular, but are they safe? A report by security company Intertrust says that 88% of the apps tested failed at least one of the cryptographic tests, meaning that the encryption can be broken, resulting in loss of privacy and possibly loss of your money. Some of the other findings from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is facing a class action lawsuit for, the plaintiffs say, selling your data. The law firm that filed the case knows a bit about these kind of lawsuits. The firm, Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP has previously won settlements in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. The were part of the team […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Recover Some of the Colonial Pipeline Ransom The feds say that they recovered most of the Bitcoin paid as ransom, but because the price of Bitcoin is in a slump, it is only worth about $2 million. The feds say that they acquired the private key to the Bitcoin wallet and transferred 63 Bitcoin […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today we are going to talk about a novel part of the executive order – the Cyber Safety Review Board. It turns out that the act that created the Department of Homeland Security allows DHS to create advisory boards. The EO tells DHS to create an advisory board to review major cybersecurity events. Examples might […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After not doing anything over the last twenty years to protect the cybersecurity of pipelines, the TSA decided they needed to do something – anything – so that they have the appearance of responding the problem. If you get the sense that I am not impressed, you are correct. So what do pipeline operators have […]
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