There are people who think open source is the holy grail of software, I am not one of them. Apparently hackers agree with me. So does the Department of Defense. They have even coined a term – SCRM or Supply Chain Risk Management. Bottom line, developers need to understand that there is a war out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hackers seem to be winning. One solution I have advocated for over the last many years to reduce credit card fraud is a technique called credit card tokenization. When a merchant accepts a credit card, that card information is immediately tokenized and that token is all that the merchant keeps. If they need to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Web Attack Will Crash Your iPhone, iPad or Mac A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your i-device with just 15 lines of code. The code exploits a weakness in iOS’ web rendering engine WebKit, which Apple mandates all apps and browsers use. Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A security researcher has found, he thinks, years worth of customer data available on Craigslist. Not exactly the dark web. The servers were from bankrupt computer store chain NCIX. The seller had, supposedly, hundreds of servers that were in storage. The storage company owner was selling the servers after NCIX did not pay their storage […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t know about you, but I am not inclined to believe that my cell phone provider is the best company to protect my security, but they disagree. And who knows – maybe it could work. The basis of Project Verify is that each cell phone has a unique fingerprint that allows the carrier to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes the gift that keeps on giving is good. Other times, it is not so good. In this case, it is not so good. You may remember the Wannacry ransomware attack last year. That virus, which took many organizations back to the stone age of computing (i.e., a pencil and paper), infected and took down […]
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