Not surprisingly, the fallout from the OPM breach continues. Here are a few new items in the news after OPM Director Archuletta was basically fired. The OPM has changed it’s privacy policy to allow investigators to probe it’s databases. This happened after the discovery of “significant entryways” for hackers in at least 3 more databases. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The media has been reporting the demonstration done by two security researchers and a Wired magazine reporter where they completely controlled a Jeep, including the brakes and accelerator. To quote Wired: I WAS DRIVING 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Add UCLA to the list of health care providers that have been hacked. UCLA says they discovered the hacking last September, but it was not until May that they discovered that the hackers had gotten into the part of the system that stores patient records. Even now they are not sure if the hackers took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Car makers are limiting the data they are sharing with Apple and Google though car entertainment systems (what the car makers call infotainment). This is not because they value your privacy, but rather because they want to be able to sell your data themselves and if they no longer own it because they gave […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the fallout of the Hacking Team breach (see post) continues, the Mozilla Foundation is taking the bull by the horns. Right now there are at least two Flash zero day vulnerabilities that Adobe has not patched. As people continue to go through the Hacking Team data dump, we may find more. As a result, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Knowledge Based Authentication – using information that only you know – used to be a very popular method for validating that you are you. Examples of this are when a customer service agent asks you for your birth date, last four of your social or where you were born. The credit bureaus even sell that […]
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