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The Consequences Of Not Conducting Cyber Due Diligence

As I have talked about before, the PNI division of Staples provides digital photo kiosks and online printing to the likes of Costco, Walgreens, CVS and Walmart and announced they had been breached in July of this year.  This resulted in all of these customers taking their photo processing sites off line. Costco had previously […]

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Firmware Bugs – It’s The New “In” Thing

Wired wrote a piece about an attack that some researchers presented at Blackhat that represents an interesting attack that we don’t have a good solution for.  Wired says: “For most users that’s really a throw-your-machine-away kind of situation. Most people and organizations don’t have the wherewithal to physically open up their machine and electrically reprogram […]

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Stagefright – The Heartbleed For Android

Stagefright is an Android subsystem that processes video in your phone.  Stagefright has been around since Android 2.2.  That means that the potential to affect around 950 million Android phones exist. The bugs (there are several of them) that researchers have discovered are really nasty because at least one of them does not even require […]

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The Ultimate Hack – Shut Down Or We Will Expose Your Customer Data

The Ashley Madison web site, where people go to cheat on their spouses, was hacked last week.  This is an interesting situation for a number of reasons. First, a little background.  The Ashley Madison web site is owned by Avid Life Media (ALM), which also runs several other web sites – Cougar Life and Established […]

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