October in the technology world is “cyber-security awareness month” (can’t believe I just wrote that). Yet, with all the awareness that popular media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, 60 Minutes, et al, bring, little in the way of solutions is being offered – which goes to the extent of how serious […]
The New York Times reported that login credentials of a Dropbox employee were stolen from an unrelated hacking incident, and led to a spam attack within its own network. The incident occurred when hacker’s used a stolen password to log into the Dropbox employee’s account that had content which contained Dropbox user information. From that point, the hacker’s launched a spam attack […]
In The New York Times today, Ms. Nicole Perlroth, started her column with “LinkedIn is a data company that did not protect its data.” This is a very powerful statement coming on the heals of a cyber-attack that posted the usernames and passwords of over 6 million LinkedIn users on a Russian Internet forum. Has […]
Documents filed in federal court regarding the January data breach of Amazon.com subsidiary, Zappos.com, shows the online shoe retailer’s data security team had detected the cyber-intruder while the hack was in progress. Zappos.com team members were able to thwart the breach before critical customer data was stolen, but the damage to its brand reputation continues to […]
The hacktavist organization known as Anonymous recently posted on its website a “hacked” 16-minute conference call between the F.B.I. and other foreign agencies, including Scotland Yard. Officials at the F.B.I. state that the call was “intercepted,” as opposed to “hacked.” According to the F.B.I., an e-mail had been sent “on Jan. 13 to more than three dozen people at the […]
Federal Authorities released a statement that they are looking into a report of a cyber-attack on critical government infrastructures in Central Illinois. According to the report cited by the Associated Press, the hackers appear to have gained remote access to a water pump which supplies water to communities west of Springfield, Illinois, and shut it […]
Point-of-Sale (“POS”) fraud is on the rise last holiday season, and once again federal and state authorities are warning the public to be weary of “skimming” techniques this holiday season. According to the Associated Press today, 28 people were indicted in New York for running an ID-theft ring, whereby waiters were recruited to use POS […]
In what may become the “straw” that broke the brand reputation to Sony, Corporation’s, PlayStation Network, the company announced on Wednesday that it was forced to suspend around 93,000 user accounts after discovering a significant number of unauthorized sign-in attempts. The latest suspension comes just 6 months after Sony was hit by a cyber-attack on its […]
In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers. The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]
The New York Times reported today that the recovery expenses for Sony, Corp., related to its hacking incident this past April will likely exceed $173 million U.S. dollars. This announcement coincides with the Company’s decision to promote Mr. Andrew House to the position of president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment. This position was once held […]