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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Charge Anywhere is a provider of credit card payment services for merchants. This week they announced that there were hackers found inside their network. The sad thing about it is that they admitted that the bad guys had been inside their network since November 2009. That is almost 5 years. They said that they only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Sony attack is breaking new ground (unfortunately). Part of what the hacker group GOP is doing in creating fear, uncertainty and doubt. They sent out an email to all Sony employees that read, in part (From The Verge): I am the head of GOP who made you worry. Removing Sony Pictures on earth is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I suspect that many of you have performed a factory reset on your phone thinking that all your data was gone and then either gave away or sold your phone. I have. Tech Times wrote an interesting article on the subject and it is not all sunshine in Android land. Avast, the computer security software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USA Today is reporting a few more details about the Sony hack-attack. This is very scary and businesses need to consider if this could happen to them (the answer is yes) and if it does, how would they handle it. This is the kind of attack that would put many businesses out of business. Businesses […]
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