So first, the headline is accurate. But second, you can do anything with statistics, so not so fast fella (or in this case, lady). SC Magazine did name OS X the most vulnerable software of 2015, but that is only because of the way they calculate the numbers. The numbers are based on the public […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update – After all of the press coverage showing the weakness in Paypal’s security, Paypal issued a press release saying they were sorry and that Brian Krebs’ funds were secure. Paypal says they are going to investigate what happened. Read details here. Brian Krebs discovered the hard way that Paypal is not the most secure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If the US is anything like Europe, you can expect that “Card Not Present” or CNP fraud will increase significantly in 2016. We will have to wait and see, but some things are likely. Chip and signature – the alternative to chip and PIN that most US banks and almost no international banks chose – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the last weeks of the year, Congress did what Congress does and took a controversial bill, CISA, which experts say expands government spying on citizens in the name of protecting them, and stuck it inside a must pass bill – in this case the omnibus spending bill – at the last minute. Since Congress […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adobe just released another large patch release for Flash that includes 19 patches. One of the patches is for a zero day exploit that Adobe says is being exploited in the wild. This brings the patch total for 2015 to a little over 300. I made a decision a couple of months ago to disable […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is the time of year for lists. In this case, the healthcare industry is probably not happy about coming in #1. IBM has named 2015 as The Year Of The Healthcare Breach, with 34 percent of all records breached being healthcare related. In just the first half of the year, over 100 million healthcare […]
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