As I have reported before, Symantec has had problems with its server SSL certificate business for years and was on double-super probation. Symantec bought its certificate business mostly from Verisign in 2010 for about 1.2 billion dollars. It also bought the certificate businesses of Thawte, Equifax and others Last month it sold that business to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: Sep 15, 2017 – Equifax’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO) “retired” (AKA were fired) today, effective immediately, according to USA Today. Hopefully, the Board will ask the CEO to “retire” soon as well. CIO Susan Mauldin and CSO David Webb are taking the heat for not installing one patch, out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have seen a number of hacks of cars including the hack of a Jeep driving down the highway at 60 miles an hour – from miles away – on 60 Minutes, but now researchers have come up with a new attack – one that cannot be patched. The CAN bus or Controller Area Network […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired ran a piece a few weeks ago with the title of this post. An alternative title might be “How to get yourself arrested and prosecuted“. While Wired’s heart was in the right place, they probably should have consulted an attorney before they published the article. The basic premise of the article is that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this week Equifax, the credit reporting giant, announced that hackers wandered inside their systems between May and July of this year. 143 million records were compromised. In addition to that, credit card numbers on 200,000 people were compromised and personal identifying information on 182,000 people were also released. Information compromised includes names, Social Security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security firm Symantec is reporting that hackers have compromised energy companies in the U.S. and Europe. Well that sounds bad enough, but we have to ask the question “what do you mean when you say compromised?” The answer is a little bit complicated. For most energy companies, in a bid to make it tougher […]
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