First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. OCC, FRB and FDIC Propose New Rule – Tell Us If You Have a Security Incident The federal banking regulators are proposing a new rule that banks and tech companies that service banks need to report to their regulator within 36 hours if the have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that Kaspersky Labs is working with Interpol, Europol and other law enforcement authorities to ferret out more details of the attack, but they have announced several details. Gene Kaspersky, founder and head of Kaspersky Labs is well known in white hat (good guy) hacking circles. His public pronouncements, while sometimes flashy, usually […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Krebs on Security is reporting a new method of extracting money from bank accounts. So far, this has been reported as being accomplished in eastern Europe and Russia, but there is certainly no reason why this cannot be accomplished in the U.S. The group starts by sending spear phishing emails to bank employees that look […]
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 […]
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