A robust incident response program and a well trained incident response team know exactly what to do and what not to do. One critical task in incident response is to preserve evidence. Evidence may need to be preserved based on specific legal requirements, such as for defense contractors. In other cases, evidence must be preserved […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes even if you try to be safe, it doesn’t work the way you want. Fiserv provides banking software to over a third of all banks. They have 24,000 employees and almost $6 billion in revenue. Many of its client banks are smaller banks and credit unions, but some large banks use Fiserv too. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Spyware Company Leaves Terabytes of Data Unprotected Spyfone, a software company that allows parents to spy on their kids, spouses to spy on each other and employers to spy on employees allowed the world to spy on everyone. The data left exposed on Amazon included photos, text messages, contacts, location information, Facebook messages and other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Law enforcement in general and the FBI in particular have been talking about the “going dark” problem caused by encryption on phones. Except, maybe, that isn’t the biggest problem that law enforcement is facing. The Center for Strategic and International Studies just released a study based on interviews […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking is a moving target. And continues to move. As banks consider using biometric authentication in the place of passwords, hackers are thinking about that too. Researchers at Black Hat demonstrated that they could synthesize your voice well enough to fool personal digital assistants. Already there are products on the market from Adobe, Baidu, Lyrebird, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers have figured out that stealing people’s phone numbers is easier and more profitable than stealing their phone (in part because they don’t have to be anywhere near you or your phone in order to steal the number). Recently I wrote about a bitcoin investor (AKA speculator) who is suing AT&T for $240 million because […]
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