Why are there constant patches for security problems that are inside software? Why??? Why do we have New Security breaches? every year new ones are found and hackers find them to hack computers (which happen to have this breached software). At the end of last year (2015) everyone was being circumspect and reviewed what happened … Read more
I know the gipper had the famous saying: But that is only for the soviet union arms control in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s we have the following: “Trust but verify” and always back up your work. But I think it is not enough in the 2010’s specifically March 10th, 2016. Now … Read more
As KrebsonSecurity noticed yesterday with his post¹. Credit Unions are seeing fraudulent transaction on Debit cards that were used at Wendy’s I created this image from Engadget’s² image of a drive-thru sign at a Wendy’s So the next time you drive thru Wendy’s (until they fix it) imagine a hacker actually also receiving your debit card … Read more
2016 Has Arrived – the First of Many Shoes to be dropped unfortunately. My apologies for the sensationalist story… Wired magazine Story¹ Los Angeles Hospital Presbytarian Medical center computers have not worked for a week – being ransomed for $3.4Mil in bitcoin and “only then” will get back in business. Even now the CEO Allen … Read more
Carefirst Breach(1) May- 1.1 mil members Hackers gained access to names, birthdates email, and subscriber info, passwords Anthem – Premera Blue Cross(2) January – 80 mil patients – personal information taken (all) Harvard university and other universities (3) – 28 known education breaches totalling 1 million compromised records. likely all personal information – passwords etc. … Read more
