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Security News Update for August 30, 2024

Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life in Prison Trump said he is watching Zuckerberg and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison. If I remember right, isn’t Trump the person who is railing about the administration weaponizing the Justice Department against political enemies. This sounds like […]

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You Know That Badge That Opens The Door – Security or Convenience, Pick Just One

Using a badge to get you in the office (and for some companies out of the office as well) may not be as secure as you thought it was. French security services firm Quarkslab has made an eye-popping discovery: a significant backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, a leading […]

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Do You OVER Share Online

Unfortunately, data breaches are with us to stay, at least for the near term. I’d like to think that they will end soon, but I don’t think that is going to happen. Today web site FlightAware warned that some customers’ information has been ‘exposed’, including social security numbers. FlightAware claims to be one of the […]

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Security News Update for August 9, 2024

Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of […]

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