Home Depot was target of DEFCON social engineering team event
DARKReading This was during the DEFCON 22 event in Las Vegas (the Social Engineering Capture the Flag event) “The social engineering competition held last month in Las Vegas was in…
Home depot also hacked by Russian hackers
KrebsonSecurity has some info There is no information on Home Depot website on the breach, although there are a lot of jobs open and unfilled from Aug 20, as well…
JPMorgan Spent $250 mil dollars on security defense – still hacked.
In JPMorgan’s shareholder letter states on page 22. Ja,oe Dimon is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer By the end of 2014, we will have spent more than $250 million annually…
Microsoft says uninstall latest patch updates
Microsoft says MS14-045 some KB updates should be uninstalled due to crashes. ZDnet also describes an apparent flaw in KB2993651 Two of these (2970228 and 2975719) are among the updates…
Google trying to reduce hacking
Wired story of “Project Zero” Although initially the story is a nice feel good story of hiring George Holtz after he hacks the AT&T iPhone lock and reverse engineering the…