Paul Manafoft, President Trump’s former campaign manager, is in trouble with the Feds. Again. Federal prosecutors say that Manafort attempted to tamper with witnesses to make sure that their testimony coordinated with his. How the feds found out is that they got a warrant for his iCloud account. Whatsapp and Telegram messages backed up to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Effective September 1, 2018, *ALL* companies doing business in Colorado will have just 30 days to notify residents if their data was breached. That is just one of the new rules. The rules apply to both government entities and businesses, which is a bit of a surprise. Different laws, but basically the same requirements. What […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]8 new Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Researchers have reportedly found *8* new Spectre-class vulnerabilties. Intel has classified 4 of them high risk and 4 of them medium risk, although they are not releasing any details on them – yet. The entire set is being referred to as Spectre Next Generation or Spectre-NG. At least one of them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Git, the software used by millions of software developers to manage their source code – the crown jewels of most corporations – is vulnerable to two different attacks. The first bug would allow a malicious attacker to overwrite code in folders where they should not be. The second bug allows an attacker to read arbitrary […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AgentRun is a startup that helps independent insurance agents and brokers manage customer relationships (CRM) and they are the latest company to do the perp walk for leaving an Amazon storage bucket unprotected. Compromised were thousands of client’s sensitive data files like insurance policy documents, health data, medical data, social security and medicare cards, blank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]RSA Security says that the number of fraudulent transactions originating from mobile devices is up 200% since 2015. In 2015 only 5% of fraudulent transactions originated from mobile; in 1st quarter 2018 it was 39%. The volume of fraudulent transactions overall is up 680% and up by 63% since 1st quarter 2017. On the other […]
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