In January Morgan Stanley caught one of it’s financial advisors, Galen Marsh, after he stole data on 350,000 clients and someone posted part of it on the Internet. This month a JPMorgan employee, Peter Persaud, was arrested for selling customer data to an undercover FBI snitch. While both of these people were in the financial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As reported in the New York Times, Justine Sacco became an instantaneous celebrity when she sent out a Tweet prior to boarding a flight to South Africa from JFK. Social media can be both powerful and cruel. In this case, it changed Justine’s life. The Tweet, along with one of the many photos of her, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The PCI Council normally releases a new version of the standard which governs merchants that accept credit cards once every three years. Given that version 3.0 came out in January, everybody thought they were safe for a while. Version 3.1 was released today and even though merchants have 14 months to become compliant, there is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone talks about “The Internet Of Things” (IoT), whether it is a web accessible security camera or your internet connected refrigerator that tells you when you are low on milk. Recently, a stalker talked to a nanny while she changed the baby’s diaper. We have also seen home routers with vulnerabilities that allow a hacker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: (Note: this is a bit geeky) Again according to Steve Gibson, the way this malware that attacked Github and GreatFire worked is that it modified the local hosts file using vulnerabilities that were fixed but that users had not yet patched and changed the local hosts file. It created entries for connect.facebook.net and google-analytics.com […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI is warning people to be wary of fake federal web sites which both take their PII and also steal money from them. The web sites rank high on the search engine page, ask for PII and collect a fee. Sometimes they ask people to send their birth certificate or other information. People are […]
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