CNN is reporting a tax scam which, while quite old, is apparently still way too effective. The IRS is reporting that they are getting complaints at the rate of 10,000 to 12,000 new complaints a week. The scam goes like this. Someone calls you with a Washington, DC phone number and says you are under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA released a 5 page document last week on keeping malware out of your network. 5 pages with links to hundreds of pages of other NSA documents. It would probably take a year just to read and absorb them. Then you have to deal with implementing the suggestions. Some are simple, some are hard. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]VentureBeat wrote an interesting item pointing out some of the obvious things that Target messed up. Fixing these items won’t stop every attack, but it certainly would slow the attackers down. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court recently Target missed the ball on a few things. Of course, at this point, these are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Der Spiegel wrote an article on efforts by the NSA and GCHQ (their British equivalent) to crack encryption of various sorts. Take the article at what it is worth; it is based on documents that Snowden released, so it is a little bit old. I apologize that this post is pretty long, but there is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: After a 9 hour outage, North Korea has reappeared on the Internet. Most folks are saying this does not look like the work of the NSA but rather the work of a hacker, but of course, who knows. Multiple sources are reporting that all 4 of North Korea’s Internet connections are totally down. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Minnesota judge has ruled that Target was negligent in the 2013 hack on their point of sale system according to infosecurity-magazine. Now while this is far from the last word on this issue and it will likely be appealed after the trials, it is important. For a judge to say that Target WAS NEGLIGENT […]
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