Price Waterhouse surveyed 500 business executives, law enforcement services and government agencies and here are some of the results: 28 percent say that their security leaders make NO presentations to the board ever 26 percent say that their boards receive a single security presentation per year. Neither of these answers warms my heart, but they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Skyhigh Networks, a cloud security product vendor, did an analysis of data from government employees on cloud service usage. They say that the average public sector organization uses 742 cloud services, of which 60 are sanctioned. That means that typical organization uses 682 services that no one has looked at the security of – or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The AP is reporting that the IRS didn’t really know how many taxpayers had their information stolen by hackers who used the Get Transcript web site. Originally, the IRS said that hackers tried to get information for about 200,000 taxpayers and were successful in getting information for 100,000 of them. Originally, they said the hack […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have talked about before, the PNI division of Staples provides digital photo kiosks and online printing to the likes of Costco, Walgreens, CVS and Walmart and announced they had been breached in July of this year. This resulted in all of these customers taking their photo processing sites off line. Costco had previously […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo has stopped installing software which allows them to overwrite system files with their version of those files, even if you wipe the disk. They have released a patch for it and recommend that users install the fixes, especially on laptops, quickly. How they do it is quite amazing. Lenovo has built, into the firmware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]People say that it is too hard to stop the bad guys. Well, you can make it a lot harder on them if you don’t just play into their hands. Ubiquiti Networks, a tech company who makes wireless equipment, is publicly traded and had revenue of $150 million in the quarter ending Sep. 30, 2014, […]
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