All posts by Chris Tribbey
Why So Many Card Breaches? A Q&A (Krebs on Security)
The news wires are buzzing with stories about another potentially major credit/debit card breach at yet another retail chain: This time, the apparent victim is AB Acquisition, wh... More
Hackers Compromise 51 UPS Stores Across the United States (Mashable)
People who have used their debit or credit cards at UPS Stores between Jan. 20, 2014 and Aug. 11, 2014 may have gotten their data stolen, according to a statement published by the ... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, Aug. 24, 2014 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates AVG Free Edition: AVG has released version 2014.0.4745 of its 32 bit Free Edition. Updates are available on AVG’s website. Avira Antivirus: Avira has... More
Panelists: Corporate Responsibility Extends to Cybersecurity (Bloomberg)
Businesses have a responsibility to know what data in their company needs to be protected from cyberattacks and why because the nation's security depends on it, panelists at the Am... More
Court: Usenet Provider Doesn’t Have to Filter Pirated Content (Torrent Freak)
The defunct News-Service.com, once one of the leading Usenet providers with many prominent resellers, has scored a court victory against Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN. The appeals ... More
Robin Williams Death Spurs Sales — and Piracy — of His Movies (Variety)
News of Robin Williams’ suicide led to a predictable surge in sales of digital downloads and DVDs of his most-beloved movies — along with a spike in pirates swiping films like ... More
Why Global Efforts to Combat Cybercrime are so Difficult (Dell’s Tech Page One)
Cybercrime is an international problem that requires an international solution.B ut because they are transnational, cybercrimes are not a high priority for local law enforcement.... More
A Two-Step Plan to Stop Hackers (The New York Times)
There are a number of ways that consumers could react to the news that Russian hackers got their hands on 1.2 billion username and password combinations.... More
Three Rules for Password Sanity (Citadel Information Group)
Let’s start with the obvious. We all hate passwords. Users hate passwords because they are hard to remember and they slow you down, getting in the way of the computing experienc... More
Google Pushes Updated Chrome, Fixes a Dozen Issues (Threat Post)
Google patched its Chrome browser this week, fixing 12 vulnerabilities, including both a serious information disclosure bug and a use-after-free vulnerability that could let users ... More
Need Data Breach Statute Compliance? There’s an App for That (Info Security)
Data breaches are the top concern for C-level executives today, and one of the most costly reputational issue their company could face. Recent news of Russian hacker crime rings, a... More
Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes (Krebs on Security)
Adobe and Microsoft have independently released security updates to fix critical problems with their products. Adobe issued patches for Adobe Reader/Acrobat, Flash Player and AIR, ... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, Aug. 17, 2014 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Adobe Flash Player: Adobe has released version 14.0.0.179 to fix at least 3 highly critical vulnerabilities in its Flash Player for the Windows and Mac ... More
Millions Download Leaked Copy of ‘The Expendables 3’ Before Theatrical Release (Wall Street Journal)
At least 2.2 million people have already watched "The Expendables 3." The problem for the movie's distributor, Lionsgate Entertainment Corp., is that its big-budget action movie do... More
Record Industry Considering a Standard, Global Album Release Day (Billboard)
The music industry is on the verge of adopting a global street date that could see all countries issuing new releases on a Friday, probably beginning a year from now, in July 2015,... More
The World’s Top 5 Cybercrime Hotspots (Time)
Cybersecurity experts say the latest, enormous data breach is just the latest evidence that cybercrime has become a global business one that, including all types of cybercrime, cos... More
How To Talk To Your Employees About Cybersecurity (Without Putting Them To Sleep) (Forbes)
Asking people to change their passwords every three months is not enough anymore. With a few straightforward recommendations, you can make cybersecurity make sense to your staff, a... More
In Fight With Hackers, We Are on Our Own (The New York Times)
The Web, as Roger Rawlinson, a group managing director at NCC Group, which owns the security consulting firm iSEC, points out, was not built to secure information, it was built to ... More
How to Keep Data Out of Hackers’ Hands (The New York Times)
The numbers sound abstract: Hundreds of millions of email addresses and other types of personal identification found in the hands of Russian hackers. For people worried that they a... More
