Don’t Trust And Verify

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

Wendy’s got hacked – now what?

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

Now Criminals Ransom 6800 Hospital Computers

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

Criminal Hackers Got Your Data in 2015

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