These days, you’d think that any company offering a new method of making financial transactions would have learned something from the thousands of data breaches in the past few years. (The top 20 breaches for 2014 are reported here.) Unfortunately,…
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Will 2015 be the “Year of the Health Care Hack”?
Reuters is reporting that some security experts are predicting that 2015 will be the “Year of the Health Care Hack.” The year got off to a bad start, security wise, with the recent hack attack on Anthem, Inc., the number…
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Data Security as National Security: the State of the Union
In his 2015 State of the Union address, Pres. Obama declared: No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families… We are making sure our…
Will Sony Hack Be a Game-Changer for Data Security?
According to IBM, there were 1.5 million monitored cyber-attacks in the US in 2013. That was a 12% increase from the previous year, and by all indications the numbers for 2014 will be even higher. One new report, released by…
Patents and America’s Innovation Engine
America is the world’s innovation engine. The First Industrial Revolution, 1760 to 1830, took place in England. But by the time of the Second Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century America had already taken over as the premier source of…
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The Secret Meanings of Passwords
As the New York Times relates, it was far too easy to reconstruct passwords after the attacks of September 11, 2001, killed 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees at the World Trade Center. The financial firm had a policy that all employees…
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Cyberthreat to Vital Infrastructure: This is Not a Movie
In the 2007 film “Live Free or Die Hard” NYPD Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is on a mission to stop a group of terrorist-hackers that have crashed the stock market and are targeting America’s infrastructure including the FAA and…
Celebrity Nudes and Mobile Malware – Will Your Phone Be Next?
Recently, hundreds of intimate and revealing photos of female celebrities, including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, were posted online, apparently after being stolen from their iCloud accounts. Some of those images, many of which were presumably taken with iPhones and other Apple…
Are Hackers Shopping for Your Data on EBay?
Consumers visit eBay to bid on everything from abacuses to zithers. Now it turns out that some site users are getting hijacked by scammers. Some product listings have redirected eBay visitors to sites where criminals harvest their passwords. As a…
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Home Depot Data Breach Could Be the Biggest One – So Far
The data breach at Home Depot is shaping up to be the biggest one to date, dwarfing even the massive leak of 40 million credit card records at Target last year. The New York Times reports that the number of…
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