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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Databreaches and other sites are reporting that a database of 191 million voters is available publicly online. As of this morning, after a week of trying to track down the owner of the database, the owner is still a mystery. 191 million is likely the number of registered voters in the United States. Depending on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Now that Christmas has come and gone and your kids are actively playing with their new goodies, have you considered protecting their identities from fraud? Two recent breaches bring the subject to the forefront. VTech Holdings, the Hong Kong based toy maker offers an app store called Learning Lodge and messaging system called Kid Connect. […]
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