Florida Woman Uses AI – To Make False Assault Claim Brooke Schinault called St. Petersburg police on October 7th to report a stranger breaking into her house. While she didn’t know the person, she provided a photo of the suspect sitting on her couch. As the investigation continued, she remembered that the suspect sexually assaulted […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I can’t say this enough. Supply chain risk. Third party risk. Vendor risk. It is all the same thing. Fixing it is a challenge. Ignoring it is NOT a solution. First, lets talk about what happened. Hackers who call themselves ShinyHunters, formerly Spider and Lapsus$, also called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, specializes in data theft, extortion […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For a while I had a counter on the weekly newsletter of the number of victims. At some point it seems to have calmed down. Now the hacker has released more data, including Amazon employee data. The hacker said that what you have seen is less than 0.001 percent of the data he/she has. He/she […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I know I sound like a broken record, but as businesses start to improve their internal security, attackers focus on compromising businesses’ supply chains. In the case of the Hezbollah attack, the attackers must have, some how, known (a) that they were buying new walkie-talkies and pagers, (b) who they were buying them from, (c) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Organizations manage risk. Risk has a lot of dimensions. Everything from not being able to get raw materials to hurricanes. Possibly your biggest risk is your third party relationships. As companies continue to outsource parts of their supply chain to other companies, those companies have your data. And if those companies get breached, you get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Different sources are reporting different numbers, but the personal information on between 6 million and 14 million Verizon Wireless customers has been exposed. The information includes name, address, phone number, general information on calls made to customer service and, in some cases, the user’s security PIN. The details of this are going to sound all […]
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