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Security News for the Week Ending July 12, 2019

FBI and DHS Raid State Driver’s License Database Photos The FBI and DHS/ICE have been obtaining millions of photos from state DMV driver’s license databases.  The FBI and DHS have do not feel that they have ask permission to do this. The FBI conducts 4,000  facial recognition searches a  month.  While the searches might be […]

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Magecart, the Credit Card Stealing Monster, Is Alive and Well

In one research report researchers have discovered Magecart attacks affecting 17,000 web domains including some in the Alexa Top 2000.  You may remember that Magecart is what took down British Airways and likely caused them to be fined 183 million Pounds by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Magecart is not a single hacker or even […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 5, 2019

This is What Spies Do It has come out that western (read one or more of the five eyes countries) inserted malware into Yandex (Russia’s equivalent of Google) in order to steal administrative credentials.  The purpose was, apparently, to read emails of interest to the western spies.  We need to understand that we do it […]

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Mozilla (Firefox) Named Internet Villain for Supporting Privacy

Okay, this is going to take a little bit of explaining so bear with me, but it is important. Everyone knows about the padlock in their browser with says that the traffic to that web site is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, which has now been upgraded to Transport Layer Security (TLS).  The […]

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