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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: OPM said that 3.6 million of the 4.2 million people affected by the first breach were also in the casualty count of the second breach, so the total should be around 22 million instead of 25 million. However, they added 1.8 million fingerprints to the mix. OPM said that notifications for the second breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday, I beat up Apple. Today, I am beating up Google. I am an equal opportunity beater-upper. When you buy an Android phone, it backs your junk to the cloud unless you go out of your way to tell it not to. That way if you lose your phone or buy a new one, […]
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