Posts Tagged ‘hacker’

Improve Information Security and Privacy Now!

Monday, December 22nd, 2014

Too many businesses have poor information security controls in place (e.g,. demonstrably Sony, Staples, and a seemingly infinite number of other companies) and are basically giving their intellectual property, and the personal information they are responsible for, away.

A recent Sailpoint survey reveals that: (more…)

Strong security controls are necessary for more than just preventing hack attempts

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Recently I’ve heard in various discussion venues the argument that information security controls are an impediment to technology use, and that instead we should look at demotivating the hackers. With specific regard to medical devices, one commenter stated that generally, the best “bet in defending medical devices (as well as financial systems) is making the information useless/pointless for the attackers.”  This is a dangerous attitude, and minimizes the true value of data on the devices.

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7 Info Sec & Privacy Tidbits

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Today I spent a lot of time in phone meetings and doing research. So, instead of focusing on writing about one topic today, here are my tweets I sent out, that cover a wide range of topics…

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7 Info Sec & Privacy Tidbits

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Today I spent a lot of time in phone meetings and doing research. So, instead of focusing on writing about one topic today, here are my tweets I sent out, that cover a wide range of topics…

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Twitter Accounts Hacked; Including Barack Obama’s and Britney Spear’s

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Yesterday Twitter reported here and here that several (33 to be exact) Twitter accounts were hacked into. This is in addition to the current, but separate, Twitter phishing…otherwise known as “twishing“…exploit that is simulatenously going on.

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Palin Email Hacker Indicted

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Around September 10 a widely-reported story broke about how Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account was broken into.
Contents of some of her email messages were then widely posted to various Internet websites.

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Two Types Of Young Hackers

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of hacker-related news articles…
When scanning today’s news I saw the headline, “Teen Is World’s Youngest ‘Ethical Hacker’

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Web Hackers Fined $15 Million by SEC

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

I remember reading in an issue of 2600 The Hacker Quarterly magazine several years back about how easy it is to commit crime, without being noticed, by hacking poorly secured web sites.
Hacking is often viewed to be a safe, almost anonymous, type of crime that is often very hard to pin upon one individual.

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Trying To Determine Actual Numbers of Privacy Breaches Since 1980; An Exercise in Futility?

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Today a press release caught my eye, “Hackers get bum rap for corporate America’s digital delinquency.”
Hmm…sounds interesting. Let’s see what is behind this nicely-hooking title.

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Privacy Breach, Hackers and Lawsuits: Iowa Department of Education, Microsoft and Perkins Omelettes; Oh My!

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

There’s been enough interesting information security and privacy news here in my own frigid (subzero) snowy back yard in central Iowa to keep me from looking beyond the state for discussion material. Well yes, I did look beyond anyway…what I found will wait until another day.
Yesterday was interesting in that the Iowa Department of Education announced a security breach into their GED database and the Microsoft versus Comes/Iowa class action lawsuit was settled out of court.

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