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Security News for the Week Ending November 22, 2019

Huawei Ban – Is It A National Security Issue or Bargaining Chip? Back in May, President Trump issued a ban on US companies buying from or selling to Huawei (see here).  Since then, the government has issued an extension to the ban 90 days at a time and the government just issued another extension.  They […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending October 26, 2018

Poorly Secured Family of Adult Web Sites Leak Account Info For those people who can think back to the hack of the Ashley Madison web site, this is kind of deja vu all over again. 100 megabytes of user authentication data was leaked – user names, IP addresses, passwords and email addresses.  Not THE most […]

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Wendy’s, Cici’s, Twitter – The Attacks Keep Coming

In January 2015 Wendy’s disclosed, after many banks already announced, that it’s point of sale system was breached.  For months Wendy’s refused to provide any details, only saying that they were investigating things. In May, when it released it’s first quarter earnings report, it said that fewer than 300 restaurants  were compromised and all of […]

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