While this post should be of direct interest to Broker Dealers, it really applies to anyone who outsources information services. You can delegate the task but not the responsibility. In this case, the broker dealer used a cloud provider to store customer information. This is no different, for example, than a mortgage company using a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the Republicans and Democrats are arguing whether the Russians hacked the DNC and affected the outcome of the presidential election, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey, in an interview with CBS, spoke about a Russian hack which has mostly been rumors up until now. I think we can reasonably accept that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Some people are suggesting that you cancel your Yahoo account immediately. This is likely a really bad idea. If you cancel the account, someone else may be able to open an account with the same name. If they do, they will be able to send emails that appear to be from you and they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First the good news – you have to have physical control of the iPhone in order to make this hack work. Now the bad news – there is more than one YouTube video describing how to do it. Too bad the FBI didn’t see the videos before they tried to get Apple to unlock the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Emergency Response Team issued an alert regarding some Netgear Internet Routers that are susceptible to a vulnerability for which there is, apparently, no good fix. They called out two routers in particular, the R6400 and R7000, but while Netgear has been very quiet about it, they did post a security update on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In April the Supreme Court approved the FBI’s request for expanded powers under Rule 41. This rule change could have been rolled back if Congress decided to do that, but they did not and the changes to the rule went into effect on December 1. So what do the changes to Rule 41 of the […]
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