According to Washington Technology, hackers have gone after Keypoint Systems, a contractor for The Office of Personnel Management that does background investigations for security clearances. If anyone has ever had a Department of Defense or other government security clearance, the information that you provide is extremely detailed. For example, for the DoD, the SF-86 form […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Department of Justice appears to be doing its best to kill off the cloud – at least in the U.S. Microsoft has been fighting, for months, a DoJ search warrant to provide emails and address book information for a customer who’s data is stored in an Irish data center. Microsoft has been fighting this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While The Sony hack/attack continues to capture the media’s attention with new data releases which create drama – who got caught saying what when – Bloomberg is reporting that something very similar to that happened to the Sands empire in February of this year. Some of you are familiar with Admiral Rogers testimony (head of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the items that got leaked in the Sony hack was the mailbox of Amy Pascal, the Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Here are some excepts from a Washington Times article. Among the leaked conversations int the email are a conversation between Pascal and producer Scott Rudin. The conversation goes something like this: Rudin: […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am going to name 2014 as the Year Of The Crypto Bug. Does it seem to you that this year or so has revealed more than it’s share of cryptography oopsies? It does to me. So I started looking at what was found this year. In some sense, this is good news, but in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Risk Based Security is doing a play by play of the Sony breach. Visit their website for a detailed analysis of what was stolen. I am going to just pick one little part of it, which is scary in and of itself. The fact that they found over a million unredacted socials is a business […]
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