In what has been a monument to how NOT to handle a data breach, Wendy’s has again revised the number of restaurants affected by hackers. Wendy’s initially refused to release any information about how big the hack was, although bankers were saying that this was hitting them harder than the Home Depot breach did. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It appears that Google is getting serious about Android security. They have, for the past several months, been releasing patch updates every month – like other software companies. While I have no visibility to AT&T and Verizon, Sprint has been religious at pushing those updates out to my phone. This month they released patches covering […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, you don’t have to check your calendar, it is not April Fools Day and Yes, they really do want to do that. Along with the rest of your medical devices. Some of you may remember that when Dick Cheney was Veep, they modified his pacemaker so that the bad guys couldn’t take him out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The government would like us to believe that if they have unfettered access to all the data that they want, it will be secure. The evidence does not support that. This past week, a terrorism database called World-Check was leaked accidentally (At least I think it was an accident). It contains information on about 2 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lizard Stresser, the “service” that came to fame on Christmas Day 2014 when it knocked Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s xBox web sites off line, has never gone away. Now it has a new claim to fame. The claimed purpose of the software was to allow web site owners to stress test their web sites under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anti Virus software has long been a concern of the security community. While it endeavors to protect the user’s workstation, in order to do it’s job, it requires a lot of system level permissions. This week, at least with Symantec, that came home to roost. Tavis Ormandy a researcher from Google announced that he’d found […]
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