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New data breaches could hurt more than wallets
Hacktivism is not new, but when the data stolen and released targets a group already beseiged by violent acts of “protest”, have the hackers stepped over the line into actual terrorism? What if the data stolen contains sensitive data aside from financial information, such as medical records, or proof of infidelity? What if the security
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Ashley Madison hacked – 37M users exposed
Hackers will go where the data resides, and there is perhaps no “juicier” website than the infamous Ashley Madison website that facilitates extra-marital relationships for nearly 40 million people. Owned by the Avid Life Media group, the Ashley Madison website is part of a family of similarly-minded websites including Couger Life and Established Men. The
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The last days of Adobe Flash?
Last week’s breach of Italian security firm Hacking Team exposed documentation that detailed the firm’s use of previously unknown security weaknesses in Adobe’s pervasive Flash platform. Typically known as “zero-day” vulnerabilities, these types of holes are being exploited by cybercriminals from the moment they are discovered, and companies will scramble madly to patch the problems
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Who hacks the hackers?
Today’s headline alludes to a concept perhaps as old as civilization itself. Plato expressed it as, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” Who will watch the watchers? In a spectacular demonstration of what a well-executed hack can do, an unknown hacker has virtually imploded the operations of a digital surveillance company known (ironically now) as Hacking Team.
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File sync is not back up
I am increasingly encountering a dangerous misconception about data backups that could lead to some serious “facepalm” moments. On at least three separate occassions while speaking with someone about data backups, the person I was with referred to DropBox as their primary data backup platform. In case you are unfamiliar with DropBox, it’s a cloud-based
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Windows XP – the OS that won’t die
Despite the imminent arrival of Windows 10, thousands of businesses and organizations around the world continue to cling to Windows XP. In the business world, this position is increasingly dangerous to a company’s bottom line for a variety of reasons, but for the world’s most (arguably) powerful navy, it could be downright dangerous. The US
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