Larry Ponemon surveys companies every year to see how cost of dealing with breaches is trending. This year shows, among other things, that it costs companies an average of $217 per record breached. That means, on average, a small breach of say 10,000 records still costs $2 million. If you assume his numbers are high, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Beacon Health System, the result of a merger of two hospitals in South Bend Indiana announced that their email system was breached and hackers had access to emails between November 2013 and Jan 26, 2015 – about 15 months. While allowing the hackers to roam through your system for 15 months seems long, it, unfortunately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATED: 02 Jun 2015 2216 EDT The Senate, in a 67-32 vote, passed the same bill they were unable to pass before they went on vacation, restoring some of the expired provisions of the Patriot Act. The bill now goes to President Obama who said he would sign it. Gone is the bulk collection of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ABC News reported what we already knew and as Bruce Schneier aptly said – the TSA is security theatre. All show and not much substance. Homeland Security “Red Teams” were successful 67 out of 70 times at getting mock weapons and explosives through TSA checkpoints all over the country. Previously, TSA “fails” had been cast […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Malware is a moving target. Just when we think we have a handle on things, it morphs. Ars Technica is reporting about GPU based malware. Two proof of concept malware samples, Jellyfish and Demon, run entirely on the graphics processor or GPU which typically lives on the video card. This means that it is unlikely that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As expected, Congress was not able to come to a consensus regarding renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act, which expired about 30 minutes ago. The three provisions – bulk data collection of metadata of all phones calls in the U.S., roving wiretap warrants (warrants on people, rather than a particular phone number) and the […]
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