The NSA and CIA can’t seem to keep their toys under wraps. Last week the Shadow Brokers released more NSA tools. The generally agreed upon theory is that the tools were developed by the NSA’s Equation Group, a hacking for hire contractor. What is less clear is how they got out. One possibility is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For some people, they never met an app that they didn’t like. And install. Well, here is the counterpoint to that concept. Bose is now being sued because, the lawsuit says, that the Bose app is collecting data and selling it. Maybe that might be expected if their headphones didn’t cost $300 or more. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last December Brian Krebs reported that banks said that there was a pattern of credit card fraud centered around the hotels of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, IHG. IHG owns Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Intercontinental, among many other brands. At the time, IHG said that it only affected a dozen hotels or so. IHG owns […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The BankBot trojan is managing to keep Google Engineers on their toes. The trojan sits, literally, on top of existing banking apps and captures your user name and password. The initial target was Russian banks. Then it was “improved” to include UK, Austria, Germany and Turkey. Who knows what the next version will target. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]37 billion dollars. Is that enough reason? As health premiums increase, more people, especially healthy ones, are moving to high deductible health plans (HDHPs). A feature of all HDHPs is the option to create a health savings account (HSA). HSAs are tax advantaged in several ways, so most people who have HDHPs also have HSAs. […]
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