It has been reported in the NY Times, among other places, that a Russian crime gang has amassed 1.2 BILLION userid/password combinations, along with 500 million email addresses. Even to me, that is a large number. The passwords represent data stolen from 420,000 web sites, including both large and small companies. The bad news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an item on Govtech, The FBI is looking for a little help from businesses in their effort to bring cyber criminals to justice. Assistant AG for National Security John Carlin and FBI Director James Comey said they need more than knowing how a breach occurred. They also want to know why the bad […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Those of you who have been following the Target Company’s security breach are probably aware that the publicly stated source of the breach was a heating vendor who clicked on a malicious email and set the wheels in motion for one of the largest security breaches ever. Since since the old adage says that your firm’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article at Investors.com made a number of good points, but I have a bone to pick about one point. First the good points – One of the many changes that the Internet brought about is that it is easier than ever to steal someone’s data. You don’t have to break in to someone’s house […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an item in USA Today, counties in New York State not only snap pictures of your license plate, but keep them in a database with date-time and location information. The data is accessible by police throughout the state as well has the Department of Homeland Security. If you take a bunch of pictures […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is an article in Slate that suggests that we should treat public computers like we treat public restrooms – very cautiously. I had never made that analogy before, but I do like it. Both public restrooms and public computers may harbor germs and viruses. Both may have been frequented in the recent past by […]
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