Remember the Equifax breach a few years ago? Almost 150 million people were affected. Now its competitor is under the microscope. The class action microscope. A class action has been filed that says that Experian did little to prevent account takeovers by bad guys. The suit, quoting Brian Krebs’ blog (yes, really), says that hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Emergency Alert System Has a Minor Bug Homeland Security has issued an alert that there are critical vulnerability in the Emergency Alert System encoder and decoder devices. If left unpatched, it would allow a hacker to issue fake warnings of emergencies. The EAS is the nationwide alert system that is used to warn citizens […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The only way that any company is going to get to real security is if they get to Secure by Design. What does that mean? Well, there is no hard and fast definition, but here are some good suggestions: LIMIT SHADOW IT You can’t protect what you don’t know is there. Shadow IT also has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just call me dumb. For the last couple of years the feds have been claiming that Chinese equipment manufacturers like Huawei pose a national security risk to the United States. I really didn’t understand this since all the data transmitted over the cellular network is encrypted, so what is the problem. First, in theory, after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s assume that you are interested in buying cybersecurity insurance. It is very likely that the underwriter is going to use one of the External Attack Surface Management tools (EASM) like the ones we sell to decide whether to write insurance for you. Your customers may also use an EASM tool to decide whether to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I received a letter from a high end accounting firm in New York today warning their clients that check fraud has “increased significantly” and has become “a more prevalent issue”. They recommend that you review bank transactions daily confirming the correct payee and amount. The problem with that strategy is that check images are typically […]
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