This is a slightly different version of a breach. A Montefiore Medical Center employee stole information on patients and sold it to her confederates for as little as $3 a record. According to ABC News, during 2012 and 2013, 32 year old Monique Walker printed out thousands of patient’s records including names, socials, birth dates and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A new trend is emerging with hackers. Rather than going after large companies like Target and Home Depot (not that those guys are now safe), hackers are going after the vendors that support small companies. In this case, eCellar, a vendor that provides point of sale software to many California wineries, has told their customers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In February, I wrote about some malware that lives inside the firmware of a disk drive. As a result of where it lives, no anti-malware software can detect it. (Curious note: The firmware of a disk drive can be written to in order to update it, but there is no command to read it back. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, that headline should get your attention. The good news is the risk is relatively low. The bad news is that the patch process in the Android ecosystem is very broken. So what is a researcher to do – announce the vulnerability at Blackhat London. And, unfortunately, there is nothing for a user to do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Katherine Archuleta, in testimony before Congress said that she realized when she assumed her post 18 months ago that the agency had huge cyber security issues. When pressed on why the data was not encrypted, her response was that it is hard to do on systems that are that old. However, Dr. Ozment, DHS assistant […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The WSJ Blog had a guest post from Deloitte talking about why the U.S. electric grid is still vulnerable to attack. The short answer is that the grid is being used and managed in a way that it was never designed to operate and the utilities and manufacturers have not adjusted to that fact (see […]
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