Over 5 Billion Records Exposed in 2018 Risk Based Security is reporting that there were 6,515 publicly reported breaches in 2018 exposing over 5 billion records. This is a couple hundred breaches less than 2017, but the final numbers are not in yet as breaches continue to be reported. The number of days between discovery […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a while back about hackers that had compromised a law firm and its customer Hiscox insurance – or said differently Hiscox and its vendor. The law firm was handling claims related to 9/11 (almost 20 years later and still litigating!). A lot of law firms (certainly not all) have not figured out that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stanford University is considered is fairly good college. They have some well known grads such as Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google founders), Herbert Hoover, Peter Thiel (Paypal founder), John Steinbeck and Sandra Day O’Connor. But apparently when it comes to software, they, themselves, are not so good. A little over a year ago they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Pakistani hacker who last week put up 600 million hacked accounts has added another hundred million records plus to the pie. The first batch included 617 million records from 16 hacked sites — Dubsmash – 162 million accounts My FitnessPal – 151 million accounts MyHeritage – 92 million ShareThis – 41 million HauteLook – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anybody Know What 5G Cellular Means? 5G is the next generation of cellular, promising blindingly fast service and web page loads in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really exist yet. Yes, a few carriers have set up a few cell sites in a few cities, but there are basically NO phones that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about 4 different cases where courts are moving in the direction of making it easier for plaintiffs to sue companies in case of a breach. Now we have another situation. In the past, judges have approved settlements that only made the lawyers rich. The plaintiffs sometimes got, literally, nothing. That is […]
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