Right after Yahoo announced all of the different breaches, the expectation was that Verizon merger offer would be modified or totally go away. Well, there is some news and it is probably not as bad as it could be. Many people were suggesting that the price would go down by a billion dollars and that Verizon […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At least in Pennsylvania, a court says the answer is no. Here are the details. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was hacked and employee’s personal information was taken and used to file phony tax refunds. Information taken included names, socials, birth dates, addresses and salaries. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that employees […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Memorial Healthcare Systems in Florida was fined $5.5 million for allowing the information of about 115,000 patients to be accessed “impermissibly”. Memorial, which operates 6 hospitals, an urgent care center, a nursing home and other healthcare facilities in South Florida, reported the breach in 2012 – 5 years ago – after it discovered the problem. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article on BBC.com really is asking that question. Recently, NASA engineer Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. citizen working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was stopped at Houston customs. He was returning from Chile where he was racing solar power cars. Customs demanded that he hand over his phone and the phone PIN. When he protested […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Cisco; now it is Juniper and apparently there are a number of other vendors who will be affected by this flaw. While no one is saying who the vendor of the flawed hardware inside Cisco and Juniper products is, it is believed that it is Intel’s Atom C2000 chip. Intel has acknowledged […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let that title sink in for a minute. A quarter of all web apps fail security miserably. That does not mean that the other 75% are secure; it means that the other 75% are less unsecure. For the 25%, it means that things are pretty hopeless. For a quick cheat sheet on the OWASP top […]
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