For Financial Service firms, the message is clear. Both FINRA and the SEC are looking over your shoulder to make sure that you are taking cyber security seriously. And the fines are not small. From hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, firms big and small are getting whacked with fines. In 2014, the SEC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote the other day about hackers stealing your phone number to be able to capture the text messages for password resets. Here is another reason to be concerned about the security of your phone and phone number. The banks are walking a tightrope. Millennials just don’t relate to banks the way their parents do, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter. While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal. In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As a follow on to last week’s posts on why patching is critical and the CERT alert on The Shadow Broker’s release of a whole raft of firewall hacks, this week Cisco is announcing that their software is vulnerable to attack, there is no workaround and they are working on patches. BUT, there is a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has decided to lead the way on web, as it often has. In this case, Google has announced that as of January 1, 2017, web pages that transmit credit cards or ask for passwords over HTTP (vs. HTTPS) will be marked with this flag in the address bar: Some of will say that this […]
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