Pymts.com is reporting that the FBI says that most breaches are entirely avoidable. At the Online Trust Alliance’s Data Privacy And Protection Town Hall in New York City, FBI Special Agent George Schultzel said that over 90 percent of the companies who reported breaches to them had little to no security whatever. The FBI said […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: In a post on Dark Reading, they have added a few more details. The breach, they say, started December 10th, about two months ago. They detected the breach on January 27th and notified customers 8 days later. Compared to other breaches, that is very quick. While they are calling this by that overused term, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just signed up for a cyber security newsletter with Mondaq, the big British publisher, and I got a confirmation email back after the signup. I get those all the time, so I didn’t really look at the email until later. Two things stand out in the email — First this: To choose your personal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month I wrote a piece talking about the Business Software Alliance’s point of view of software piracy, which is guilty till proven innocent. As with any good story, there is often an opposing view and I came across one on Mondaq, the legal (among many other things) information publisher. The article, written by Steven […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While every single bank and ecommerce provider tells you that SSL (or HTTPS) is wonderful and fully protects you, unless they are on drugs, they don’t really believe that. From their perspective, the risk is manageable and they would rather reimburse you if you can prove their SSL connection leaked AND cost you money than […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The news is reporting that a nanny in Houston said that she heard voices coming from the baby monitor while she was changing her baby’s diaper last week. Apparently, someone was watching them and talking to them over the built in speaker in the baby monitor. That speaker is designed so that the parents, using […]
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