Sextortion is the act of convincing vulnerable people, often teenagers, to provide the sextortionist with sexually explicit photographs and videos under the threat of releasing other embarrassing material, such nude pictures that may already privately exist in the victim’s email, text messages or private social media. The attacker does this by convincing the victim that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Timehop Hack Compromises 21 Million Users In a bit of good news/bad news, the social media time capsule site Timehop said that it was hacked around July 4th, but that they interrupted the hack in progress. Still the hackers got usernames, passwords, email addresses, date of birth, gender, some phone numbers and other information for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is step one of a multi-part series on complying with the new privacy rules, both in Europe and, just recently, in California. Watch for further steps over the next several weeks. While companies are supposed to be compliant with GDPR already, many are not and the California law’s effective date is still almost 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This seems to be a recurring topic, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any better, so I will leap back into the fray. Last month Ticketmaster announced they had a breach and they led people to believe that it was isolated and that it had something to do with their software. According to RiskIQ, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Police think that hackers hacked the pumps at a Detroit area gas station allowing drivers to get free gas. Ten cars figured it was okay to steal gas from “The Man” to the tune of about 600 gallons. While 600 gallons of gas is not the end of the world, it does make a point. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
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