Let me apologize at the beginning – this post is going to get a little strange. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA was passed by Congress mostly at the request of the movie and music industries who pay lobbyists a lot of money to strong arm Congress-people. The DMCA has several provisions, but one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Target has agreed to pay $39+ million to banks and credit unions who had to reissue cards as a result of the breach of 40 million cards in late 2013. This still has to be approved by the judge in the case. An earlier settlement for a lower amount was dismissed by the judge […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It might be a fair fight if companies would do just a few of the right things, but for a lot of them, they do not. There is a form of ransomware going around now that attacks web sites rather than workstations. Encrypting all the data on your web site will probably make you willing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]January 12th is the deadline for Windows Internet Explorer users to upgrade to the current version of IE or lose support and patches. Last June Microsoft told the nearly 370 million IE users that they had until January to switch to IE 11. There are a couple of exceptions. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers from the security firm SEC Consult did a little research. They reverse engineered a number of routers, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices. They discovered two things: Manufacturers seem to have a bad habit of hard coding secret encryption keys inside the firmware of their Internet of Things devices. Manufacturers of IoT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at FireEye have discovered form of malware that is primarily designed to figure out who the high value targets are. My guess is that this FORM of malware is far from unique and they say that this particular malware is state sponsored, likely by Russia. The Witchcoven malware has infected more than a hundred sites […]
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