K-mart payment system breached

 Securityweek story The company believes debit and credit card numbers have been compromised. Kmart’s News release:   http://www.kmart.com/ue/home/10.10.14_News_Release.pdf It seems to always be after the fact that further advanced technologies have been deployed, as well as IT security firms have now been hired. Lucky for any future Kmart shoppers -now security is being taken care … Read more

Russian Criminal website taken down by FBI

Here is a video of the FBI agent and the VP of threat research  Dmitri Alperovitch and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Keith Mularski.   If you want to just go to  the site http://bcove.me/vchfpcni  and goto minute 41 where the FBI agent discusses the specific case of infiltrating the Russian cyber crime ring and take it down. … Read more

What happened to JP Morgan hack of 76 mil accounts?

Wall street Journal has the story behind their paywall. In mid-June hackers attacked and gained access to servers and data. 2 months go by and JPMorgan defense does not know anything,  the hackers steal 76 million accounts and use JP Morgan servers. In mid August is when the cybersecurity teams actually find the problems and … Read more

ComputerCop is insecure and can give info to hackers

There is a program that some law enforcement agencies  have given to families across the country It is called ComputerCOP.  The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has reviewed and analyzed the program, and unfortunately it consists of a keylogger and transmits data unencrypted across the Internet. if someone enters a credit card or password username combinations, then … Read more