Mark Weatherford, first deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, chief information security officer for the State of California and chief security officer for the State of Colorado, among other jobs, spoke at TiE Rockies, an entrepreneur group based in Metro Denver. Mark spoke on his views regarding cybersecurity. A video of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to phish and he’ll use your credit card to buy dinner.” Many people say that they are too small for hackers to bother with them. Reality is, according to Verizon’s 2012 data breach study, that out of 855 breaches they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British pub firm Wetherspoons was recently hacked. The hacker got away with names, birthdays, email addresses and phone numbers of over 600,000 people as well as credit card information on a few customers. The hacker contacted a reporter – a assume to brag, see link below – and said that breaching the site was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Wyndham Worldwide hotel chain, which has been fighting with the FTC for years after the hotel chain suffered three security breaches in two years exposing credit card data, settled with the FTC this week. The hotel went as far as to attempt to get the courts to say that the FTC did not have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the politicians in Washington and elsewhere are arguing the merits of FORCING Google and Apple to add crypto backdoors into their devices (and Facebook and whoever to add crypto backdoors to their applications), Daesh (aka isis) has already come up with a solution to that problem. Washington seems to have forgotten the lesson the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am sure that everyone has seen the links on Facebook for this game or that game. Many of the games seem like fun, but when you click on I Accept or similar language, what are you actually agreeing to? Here is an example. The game that claims to find the most used words in […]
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