The IAPP published 10 part series on vendor management. A vendor was the cause of both the Target and Home Depot breaches and as I wrote yesterday, a vendor cost USIS at least $2.5 billion in lost business. How good is your vendor management program? Here are a few tips from the series: You may […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are not a lot of details, but Network World is reporting that the Penn State College Of Engineering took their Internet connection “off the hook”. Last November Penn State got a visit from the FBI – that visit that everyone hopes that they will never get. Penn State was the victim of two cyber […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several items about cell site simulators or Stingrays. Dirtboxes are stingray-like devices hung from an airplane that DoJ agencies use to capture tens of thousands of cell phones as they fly over hundreds of miles. I said early on that it was going to be years before the crap hit the fan, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Below is an interesting ad from the J.P. Morgan Chase home page: They go on to say that you could be responsible for any losses if you do. They say don’t share your login password for Chase.com with third party sites that offer budgeting, managing and other services. In fact, the user agreement says this: […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported today that the age of drone vandalism has come. Early Wednesday morning, the graffiti artist/vandal known as KATSU used a hacked Phantom drone to deface a 6 story tall Calvin Klein billboard on Houston Street in New York City and posted the tagging of the billboard on You Tube. Given what he did […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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