Dark Reading reported on Verizon’s PCI compliance assessment and I think the numbers are interesting, but not terribly unexpected (see article). The actual report, all 84 pages, is available here. Most of the time (maybe always), when a business has an assessment done by a third party assessor, that company will do an interim assessment […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trend Micro has identified a new piece of malware (see article) that attempts to connect to your home router using default userids and passwords for a number of home router vendors. It tries userids like admin, guest, root and user and passwords like admin, password and 12345678. The malware, named VICEPASS, scans for devices and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably many of you saw the 60 Minutes segment on hacking your car (see video here). In the 60 Minutes segment, the researcher/hacker was able to turn on the wipers and washers, blow the horn and disable the brakes in that demonstration. Here is a link to a conversation with the guys who did the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security researchers at the International Conference On Cyber Security And Cyber Law reported that they have found a fatal security hole in a wide variety of SOHO Internet Routers. As is often the case, the researchers discovered this problem accidentally while examining the code of a router for a completely different problem (see the researcher’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While tips and tricks won’t make your organization bulletproof, it will help make you bullet resistant. Here is a list from Boston Business News that is simple and right on. 1. IT Risk Assessment. You MUST start with a risk assessment and if you are up for it, I would recommend a business risk assessment. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Medical Identity Fraud Alliance (MIFA) and the Ponemon Institute released their fifth annual study on Medical ID fraud. Short version of the results: It is very costly, time consuming and complicated for consumers to resolve medical ID fraud and only 10 percent of the respondents to the study report achieving a completely satisfactory conclusion to the […]
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