An article in American Banker talks about the fight that all the banks are fighting right now. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Says the bank plans to double its $250 million annual computer security budget within the next five years. I think Chase understands the problem; Dimon said “It’s about firewall protection, it’s about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes not using best practices gets us. Other times it is fatal. Check out this article about an admin who had his (or her) entire universe fall down around his/her ankles. The article shows how, in this case, not following best practices was more than a little inconvenient. The admin was reading his email, apparently […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article in the Times a week ago says that the Feds and States want banks and brokerage firms to close some gaping holes in their defenses. What is that gaping hole? OUTSIDE VENDORS! Many people are aware that the suspected source of the Target breach was a small HVAC contractor. They didn’t do anything […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you think about the permissions that an app asks for? A recent ITWorld article delves into the subject and while the article was testing Android apps, the issue is a concern, although a somewhat lesser concern, for Windows and iOS apps as well. The issue at hand is that apps ask for certain permissions […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I read an interesting article in USA Today recently. The FBI says that over 500 million financial records have been hacked in the last 12 months (given that the Chase hack accounts for over 80 million records alone, this number in itself is not surprising). Here are a few tidbits out of the article that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With the Snapchat and Dropbox breaches this week, the attack surface just got raised a notch. In case you are not familiar with these two breaches, I will describe them at a high level what happened. With Snapchat, users assume that their pictures will disappear quickly on the other end after they are opened. However, […]
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