Tag Archives: 2015

Schools Hacked

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Carmelo

The University of California Berkeley school was hit with a data breach that might have exposed students’ Social Security numbers. The data held in the breached computer included Names, Social Security, and bank account numbers. The breach affected about 260 … Continue reading →

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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Carmelo

If you visited a restaurant, bar, or retail outlet at a Hard Rock Hotel or Casino between September 3rd, 2014 and April 2nd, 2015 in Las Vegas, and don’t have credit monitoring set up, please check your statements and/or sign … Continue reading →

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How Social Engineering Affected Tesla

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Carmelo

In totally uncool moves, two Tesla owned accounts were hijacked via social engineering: A bad guy called AT&T customer support and pretended to be a Tesla employee. This person then demanded all phone calls to the company be forwarded to a … Continue reading →

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Seven Deadly Employee Sins – How Companies Get Compromised

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Carmelo

The average person thinks that companies get hacked by super hackers with amazing knowledge on computer systems and can break encryption by staring at jumbled code like John Forbes Nash Jr. in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. It may be … Continue reading →

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Data Breach Bills to Protect Consumers from Hackers and CyberCriminals

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Carmelo

Last Tuesday, two new bipartisan senate bills was proposed to increase notification and create/enhance information sharing by Senators Mark Kirk (R) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D) where introduced to congress. The following is what was transcribed. By Mr. KIRK (for himself … Continue reading →

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Five Habits to be Unhackable

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Carmelo

By simply adopting these five habits of practically unhackable people, you too can have better security. Think before you click. 95% of hacks are the result of clicking bad links, so make sure to check that it’s the right URL and … Continue reading →

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Single and Vulnerable… By the Millions

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Carmelo

Visitors and members of Match.com are vulnerable to plaintext sniffing from a man-in-the-middle attack. Their https, redirects to http then logins are passed in the clear. Completely readable to those on the same network. Read more here.

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ISIS Hackers or Incompetent Password Management?

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Carmelo

11 television stations went off the air; websites and social media were defaced; and an internal IT outage for TV5 in Paris, France. The websites were taken over with pro-messages of the CyberCaliphate, the same group who either DDoS’ed or defaced … Continue reading →

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AT&T Data Breach = $25 Million Dollar Fine

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Carmelo

AT&T data breaches exposed about 280,000 U.S. customers’ names and full or partial Social Security numbers. The breaches occurred at call centers used by AT&T in Mexico, Colombia, and the Philippines when employees accessed sensitive customer data without adequate authorization. … Continue reading →

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Cyber Kidnapping

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Carmelo

Of course, while dramatized for prime time audiences, the CSI: Cyber series, starting with episode 1 does have great information that is all too real. The show is available online right now here. I first wrote about baby monitors getting … Continue reading →

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