Collaborate Disseminate
Massive-scale predictive analytics is a relatively new phenomenon, one that challenges both decades of law as well as consumer thinking about privacy. As a technology, it may well save thousands of lives in applications like predictive medicine, but if it isn’t used carefully, it may prevent thousands from getting loans, for instance, if an underwriting […] Continue reading Can predictive analytics be made safe for humans?
When criminal hackers keep breaking into big company networks to grab consumer data, the reason comes down to dollars and nonsense. Continue reading Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data
The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts. Continue reading Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam
The latest high profile account to be abused by scammers to promote a cryptocurrency giveaway? US retail giant Target.
Continue reading Target and other high profile Twitter accounts exploited for cryptocurrency scams
Over the years of being a professional social engineer (SE), I have been asked questions like, “Are you really testing your clients if you don’t use EVERY method possible?” Or, “You are acting like the bad guys, why do you need … Continue reading It Is Important To Have Ethics In Social Engineering
What do you do when you have time, thousands of dollars worth of magnets, and you love Mythbusters? Science. At least, science with a flair for the dramatics. The myth that a magnetic wristwatch with today’s technology can stop, or even redirect, a bullet is firmly busted. The crew at [K&J Magnetics] wanted to take their own stab at the myth and they took liberties.
Despite the results of the show, a single magnet was able to measurably alter the path of a projectile. This won’t evolve into any life-saving technology because the gun is replaced with an underpowered BB …read more
Amazon, Target and Walmart have pulled the bears from their online markets; but it’s the installed base of the connected cuddlies that should be of greater concern. Continue reading CloudPets May Be Out of Business, But Security Concerns Remain
The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we’ve known about for over a year. Continue reading Hackable CloudPets pulled from Target, Walmart, Amazon and more
Recent news accounts of security researchers discovering a database containing 1.4 billion breached credentials — reportedly, the largest such find on the Dark Web — is yet more evidence that online identity proofing that relies only on KB… Continue reading Stolen Credentials on the Dark Web: A Wake Up Call for Organizations Using KBA
Anthem agreed late Friday to pay $115 million to settle U.S. lawsuits around a data breach that hit the company in 2015. Continue reading Anthem Agrees to Settle 2015 Data Breach for $115 Million