Microsoft has been, ever since Windows 10 was released, on a race to collect more and more data on how you as a user do things. While users have complained, Microsoft remained steadfast and not only did not change its habits, but also remained pretty quiet as to what data they were collecting. Then the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few short items today. First, Lastpass, one of the two password managers that I like (the other is Keepass) has been hit with three different security bugs in the last couple of weeks. This is due to the fact that Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has put Lastpass in his sights. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Evan Schuman wrote an opinion piece in Computerworld yesterday that I found very interesting. Neimans suffered a credit card breach in 2013 that would be considered small by today’s standards. Initially they reported that a million cards were compromised; later that number was reduced to about 375,000. About 9,000 of those cards were used for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After Yahoo announced it’s mega breaches and it’s General Counsel was fired, this article is not much of a surprise. John Reed Stark, head of his own consulting firm but formerly of the Chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement and former Law professor at Georgetown Law and David Fontaine, CEO of the billion […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Electronics made in China are often less expensive than products sold by western companies such as Cisco and Juniper. But there may be a cost associated with that price. The Chinese security firm Boyusec is working with the Chinese Ministry of State Security intelligence service in conducting cyber espionage, according to the Pentagon. This would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this month the folks at Cisco were sent into a frenzy when Wikileaks disclosed Cisco exploits in their Vault 7 CIA tool data dump. Wikileaks disclosed that the CIA had been hacking Cisco Internet switches for over a year to eavesdrop on users, but didn’t disclose how. Wikileaks and a number of the tech […]
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