The British pub firm Wetherspoons was recently hacked. The hacker got away with names, birthdays, email addresses and phone numbers of over 600,000 people as well as credit card information on a few customers. The hacker contacted a reporter – a assume to brag, see link below – and said that breaching the site was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Wyndham Worldwide hotel chain, which has been fighting with the FTC for years after the hotel chain suffered three security breaches in two years exposing credit card data, settled with the FTC this week. The hotel went as far as to attempt to get the courts to say that the FTC did not have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the politicians in Washington and elsewhere are arguing the merits of FORCING Google and Apple to add crypto backdoors into their devices (and Facebook and whoever to add crypto backdoors to their applications), Daesh (aka isis) has already come up with a solution to that problem. Washington seems to have forgotten the lesson the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am sure that everyone has seen the links on Facebook for this game or that game. Many of the games seem like fun, but when you click on I Accept or similar language, what are you actually agreeing to? Here is an example. The game that claims to find the most used words in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let me apologize at the beginning – this post is going to get a little strange. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA was passed by Congress mostly at the request of the movie and music industries who pay lobbyists a lot of money to strong arm Congress-people. The DMCA has several provisions, but one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Target has agreed to pay $39+ million to banks and credit unions who had to reissue cards as a result of the breach of 40 million cards in late 2013. This still has to be approved by the judge in the case. An earlier settlement for a lower amount was dismissed by the judge […]
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