As we see the news of attacks day after day and think “can it get any worse?”, the reality is that likely, it is much worse than we think. Buried in the mass of data that was released by the Sony hackers were some emails from VP of legal compliance Courtney Schaberg telling some people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting group of vulnerabilities that make life easy for hackers and the Chinese (or Russians, or Ukrainians or pick your country). Dell has a couple of features in Dell Foundation Services. One allows an unauthenticated user to get the Service Tag (Dell’s version of a serial number) over the net. With that, you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As Businesses up their security act, the hackers are upping their act too. Banks, for example, have added two factor authentication to make logins more secure. In fact companies from Amazon to Paypal have added optional two factor authentication. So the hackers decided to up their game too. Welcome Bankosy malware. This malware intercepts your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Kaspersky Labs, the research arm of the Russian anti-malware software company, released some statistics that may not surprise you, but should concern you. Among the statistics – 1 in 10 did not think that people outside of their friends could see their posts. That’s actually a good thing – most people understand that their posts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I clicked on a link this morning to download a Ponemon Institute report this morning and got this big red X in my browser (click to enlarge in a new tab): The link went to an IBM site (IBM sponsored Ponemon’s report), so this is not a small obscure company who does not know better. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently, the FBI has been knocking on businesses doors. First we heard about Scottrade. In October the FBI came visiting Scottrade. Hi. How ya doin’? Oh, by the way, we found files on 4.6 million of your customers on the dark web. Have a nice day. In September it was Owensboro Health in Kentucky. The FBI […]
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