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A Different Perspective On Lenovo – It Is A Supply Chain Problem

While everyone is off beating up Lenovo and Lenovo, in turn, is beating up Komodia, I suggest everyone is missing the real problem. First of all, to make sure that no one is confused, this problem is not limited to Lenovo consumer laptops.  Komodia has over a hundred customers developing software, all of which put […]

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Dentists (and Doctors) A Target For Cyber Criminals

DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.  Think about all the non public personal information that a […]

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Phishing? Pharming? Don’t these guys know how to spell?

Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming.  When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com.  What if it really sent you to badfoo.com?  Badfoo.com […]

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Microsoft 1, Lenovo 0 (or minus 1?)

Lenovo is getting more than it’s share of attention these days. Microsoft has released an update to it’s free Windows Defender anti-malware software that classifies Lenovo’s Superfish as the malicious software that it is, removes the certificate from the Windows certificate store (which is the hard part, so yeah, Microsoft – and I don’t say […]

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2014 Breach Report – Over A Billion Records Exposed

Risk Based Security released their 2014 data breach report (available here) with some impressive numbers.  I am just going to highlight a few;  read the report if you would like more details. 3,014 data breach incidents (up 28.5%) 1.1 Billion records breached (up 22.3%) 72.5% of the incidents released less than 10,000 records 55.3% of […]

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