I talk all the time about third-party or supply chain breaches and there is serious impact to them. Here is one example going on now. Change Health is a healthcare payment facilitator among other services. They are used by doctors, pharmacies and hospitals to get paid. Change is owned by Optum Health which, in turn, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DEF CON is Canceled, No Really It is a meme. Every year there are announcements that DEF CON is canceled, but this year it is real. Sort of. DEF CON is the world’s largest hacking convention and has, for years, been held at Caesars in Las Vegas. You may remember that Caesars had an unfortunate […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI and the End of Privacy A couple of Stanford grad students have written an AI app that using a very small dataset (400,000 images) can detect your location. PIGEON, as the project is called, can predict the country of the image with 92 percent accuracy and provide location within 25 kilometers in 40 percent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Two of the largest real estate title insurance companies in the United States seem to be having a problem keeping their customers’ data secure. Last month Fidelity Title took its systems offline for a week or two as they wrestled with a cyberattack that delayed real estate closings and forced lenders to resort to manual […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago Suffolk County on Long Island in New York was taken out by a ransomware attack. It took months to get back online. So what did they do wrong? Pretty much everything. First, they had to find a scapegoat, so they fired their IT director. Did he do anything wrong? No. In […]
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