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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Too many breaches … too little time 🙂 First a new breach – Bebe Stores (www.Bebe.com) confirmed that they had been breached, but not much else. They said it covered the US, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They did say that it did not affect their online store (no POS terminal to compromise, I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The insurance trade rag Property And Casualty 360 wrote about medical identity theft and the impact is staggering. First just one example breach – A physician office’s server, which contained unencrypted information on 2,500 patients, was hacked and encrypted. The hackers demanded $50,000 to unencrypt the information and return control of the server. That obviously, […]
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 […]
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