by wwarren | Jan 17, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
NM’s breach is more significant than Target’s because of the length of the known compromise. Folks the same advice i gave for Target now goes to NM. If you used the same card at Target and NM and you’ve already re-issued that’s good. If you...
by wwarren | Jan 16, 2014 | Cloud Computing, Security, Security Alerts
There’s not much more to say. If you have the Starbucks app on your phone get it off of there and don’t put it back on. Starbucks has a lazy attitude towards security and it appears they aren’t going to change that anytime soon. The...
by wwarren | Jan 16, 2014 | Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
So Target was running Windows XP embedded and it appears they will for quite some time as it’s going to take quote a while to replace all of their vulnberable windows based POS systems with something else. The problem is even if they switch to something else if...
by wwarren | Jan 11, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
If you have ever shopped at Target your information was taken. 100 million? This means Target was totally compromised and they had no idea. They’ll never be able to tell EXACTLY how many…if you are smart just assume everyone who has ever used any kind...
by wwarren | Jan 10, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
When the first reports were only a limited subset of their data but a huge amount of customers I figured it was much worse. Target was just going to bide time for AFTER the holidays to fully report. NOw that the holidays are over the real extent is coming out....
by wwarren | Dec 30, 2013 | Cloud Computing, Government Regulations, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
All I can say is wow. NSA’s ANT Division Catalog of Exploits for Nearly Every Major Software/Hardware/Firmware | LeakSource.
