Cyber-Security
DMV Hacked! Your Personal Records Are Now Being Transmitted To Croatia (#GotBitcoin?)
Six days before the scheduled launch of the DMV’s new “motor voter” system last April, state computer security officials noticed something ominous: The department’s computer network was trying to connect to internet servers in Croatia. DMV Hacked! Your Personal Records Are Now Being Transmitted To Croatia (#GotBitcoin?) California has launched…
Alert! 540 Million Facebook Users’ Data Exposed On Amazon Servers (#GotBitcoin?)
The social network's lax data policies meant that for years developers could easily harvest users' sensitive data — and now it's leaking out. 540 Million Facebook Users' Data Exposed On Amazon Servers (#GotBitcoin?) Facebook has since tightened up the data the user data accessible to app developers, especially in the…
Hack Alert! Buca di Beppo, Owned By Earl Enterprises Suffers Data Breach Of 2M Cards (#GotBitcoin?)
Buca di Beppo, the Italian restaurant chain, reportedly knew about a data breach that resulted in two million credit card and debit numbers being stolen since Feb. 21 — but waited until the end of March to reveal it. Hack Alert! Buca di Beppo, Owned By Earl Enterprises Suffers Data…
SEC Hack Proves Bitcoin Has Better Data Security (#GotBitcoin?)
Gabriel Benincasa is expected to help identify and mitigate risks following 2016 breach of filings database. SEC Hack Proves Bitcoin Has Better Data Security (#GotBitcoin?) SEC Names Its First Chief Risk Officer The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said Gabriel Benincasa would become the regulator’s first chief risk officer.…
Equifax And FICO Team Up To Sell Your Financial Data To Banks (#GotBitcoin?)
Partnership is an effort to diversify beyond the nuts and bolts of credit reports and scores. Equifax And FICO Team Up To Sell Your Financial Data To Banks (#GotBitcoin?) Two consumer-credit giants plan to start working together to sell consumers’ data to banks, the latest attempt to feed banks’ appetite…
Insurers Creating A Consumer Products Ratings Service For Cybersecurity Industry (#GotBitcoin?)
CyberSecurity Newsflash!: (Youtube) Collaborative effort led by Marsh & McLennan would score best products for reducing hacking risk. Insurers Creating A Consumer Products Ratings Service For Cybersecurity Industry (#GotBitcoin?) Some of the world’s biggest insurers plan to work together on an assessment of the best cybersecurity defenses available to businesses,…
Cyber-Security Alert!: FEMA Leaked Data Of 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors (#GotBitcoin?)
CyberSecurity Newsflash!: (Youtube) AFTER BEING DISPLACED by a natural disaster, survivors have a lot of pressing concerns. They may be dealing with health impacts, displacement, loss of property, and even grieving the deaths of loved ones. Through all of this, though, one worry that is probably not in their minds is the…
Facebook Says Millions of Users’ Passwords Were Improperly Stored in Internal Systems (#GotBitcoin?)
Report shows files containing passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees. Facebook Says Millions of Users’ Passwords Were Improperly Stored in Internal Systems Facebook Inc. FB +0.35% stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in a format that was accessible to its employees, in yet another privacy…
Lithuanian Man Pleads Guilty In $100 Million Fraud Against Google, Facebook (#GotBitcoin?)
Evaldas Rimasauskas In District Court In Vilnius, Lithuania, In May 2017 A Lithuanian man pleaded guilty to his role in a complex wire fraud scheme that resulted in the theft of over $100 million from Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc., prosecutors said Wednesday. Lithuanian Man Pleads Guilty In $100…
What You Can Learn From The Best Hackers And Spies (#GotBitcoin?)
When my nanny sends me a photo of my 18-month-old son busy at play, my immediate thought: He’s a genius. What You Can Learn From The Best Hackers And Spies (#GotBitcoin?) When a hacker sent me a photo of my son, after breaking into the baby monitor on my…
Blockchain Will Be The Answer To Cybersecurity (#GotBitcoin?)
Improving The Safety Of Personal Data Like Medical Records Online Is One Area Where Blockchain Shows Promise. One of the most promising cybersecurity tools that exists today is something many people have heard about but few fully understand: blockchain technology. Blockchain Will Be The Answer To Cybersecurity The technology has…
China And Russia Aligned More Closely, Seen As Chief Security Threat To U.S. (#GotBitcoin)
The two nations are pouring resources into a ‘race for technological and military superiority,’ intelligence report says. China and Russia Aligned More Closely, Seen As Chief Security Threat To U.S. (#GotBitcoin) Threats to U.S. national security are expected to grow in the coming year as China and Russia align strategically…