Oracle POS Back Door Discovered Oracle bought the Micros Point of Sale System a few years ago and now needs to deal with the challenges from that. The newest challenge is a modular back door that affects the 3700 POS series. It is used by hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, bars and other hospitality […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The “S” in Coworking Stands for Security While the WSJ says that coworking companies are closing money losing spaces as a result of Covid, don’t forget that coworking spaces are about as secure as airport WiFi, meaning not at all. The local news just said that some coworking companies are actually expanding as people want […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Caller Poses as CISA Rep in Extortion Scam Homeland Security’s CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) says that they are aware of a scam where a caller pretends to be a CISA rep and claims to have knowledge of the potential victim’s questionable behavior. The caller then attempts to extort the potential victim. CISA says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Senate, on Tuesday, passed their version of CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. The House passed their own version of it months ago. The stated purpose of the act is to allow private companies to share “threat” information with the government and have immunity from being sued by their users for doing this. Because […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Several short items – The battle over NSA spying is not over, the OPM breach is better or worse than we thought, The first ruling on net neutrality is here, Senator McConnell is trying to insert the cyber protection bill CISA inside the defense appropriations bill in a way that does not allow for debate. […]
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