It seems like I write one of these every day. Today it is Millennium Hotels and Resorts, an international hotel chain based in Colorado. They are saying customers that used their credit cards at 14 of their hotels between early March and the end of June need to keep an eye on their credit card […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few years ago, computer researchers discovered a problem with the VW keyless ignition system. VW sued the researchers rather than fixing the problem and delayed the release of the information about the vulnerability for two years. In VW’s defense, maybe it was difficult to close the vulnerability and it certainly would take time. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All of the cell phone carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are in the business of selling you stuff. Sometimes stuff you don’t want or need, but still stuff they would like to sell to you. As a result, when decent security gets in the way of them being able to separate you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers claimed to have a group of NSA hacker tools available for sale on the dark web. The tools were supposedly stolen from the Equation Group which has been loosely linked to the NSA. If all of this is true, then the reality is that the NSA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Monday I wrote about two new Point of Sale breaches, one at HEI hotels and the other at Oracle. I said that it was only Monday and we already had two POS breaches. Well the week is almost over and I am going to bookend the week with another POS breach. Eddie Bauer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people have webcams installed in and around their house. For a Houston mother, the security that the cameras inside her house brought her was instantly turned into a nightmare recently. Another mother, in Oregon, was looking at satellite feeds of earth with her son when they started looking for more images. They came […]
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