It is common, if not automatic, for companies that have their information systems breached to offer credit monitoring services, and this includes medical record breaches. Consumers can also pay companies like Lifelock to provide the same services. The question is do they work and the answer is, for the most part, not really. Brian Krebs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone talks about “The Internet Of Things” (IoT), whether it is a web accessible security camera or your internet connected refrigerator that tells you when you are low on milk. Recently, a stalker talked to a nanny while she changed the baby’s diaper. We have also seen home routers with vulnerabilities that allow a hacker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ad injectors are usually implemented as browser add-ins that place their own ads on web pages that you visit. These adds could replace existing ads or insert new, additional ads. The can also inject malware into your computer. Google worked with a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and found 200 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably many of you saw the 60 Minutes segment on hacking your car (see video here). In the 60 Minutes segment, the researcher/hacker was able to turn on the wipers and washers, blow the horn and disable the brakes in that demonstration. Here is a link to a conversation with the guys who did the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Marc Rogers (white hat hacker and principal security researcher for Cloudflare) wrote about an interesting problem Lenovo users have. (see article) What is not clear is how long Lenovo has been doing this. The good news is that a friend of Marc’s has created a test to see if your Lenovo laptop is infected. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that 10 states, led by Connecticut, have sent a letter to Anthem complaining that the company is moving too slowly in notifying consumers of the data breach that affected up to 80 million customers and employees (see article). The states are assuming that Anthem know precisely who’s data was taken and they […]
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