As we continue to hear in the news about Amazon storage bucket breaches, Amazon continues to try and stem the reputational damage. I am not aware of any of those data spills being caused by bugs in Amazon software, but the reputation damage is still real. Over the past year or so Amazon has made […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DEA and ICE buying Surveillance Cameras Hidden in Streetlights I am not particularly surprised and it certainly is not illegal in any way, but apparently DEA and ICE have purchased $50,000 of security cameras that record video and sound, hidden in streetlights. If $50,000 is what they spent, it would cover a small number of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of my favorite quotes from a past life: There is never time to do it right. But there is always time to do it again. IoT is like that. As businesses rush at breakneck speed to do something cool with IoT, they are repeating past mistakes and not considering security. Given that the “S”in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This could be a very interesting lawsuit and we will watch it and see where it goes. In 2017 Adobe released Premiere Pro Creative Cloud 2017 version 11.1.0 , Apparently, like a lot of software, this product was not bug free. In fact, a feature called clean cache not only cleaned the cache of Premiere […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As a reminder, Cathay Pacific Airlines recently admitted it was hacked and lost data on over 9 million passengers. Information taken includes names, addresses, passport information, birth dates and other information They took a lot of heat for waiting 6 months to tell anyone about it (remember that GDPR requires you to tell the authorities […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Score One For Amazon Security! People who have read my blog for a while know that I am a big fan of two factor authentication. That little bit of extra security usually gets thrown out the window if you call in to customer service instead of logging in to the company’s web site. Two factor […]
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