ModPOS Malware: iSight’s Pathetic Effort to Increase Revenues
A few days before the 2015 Black Friday frenzy, a number of security web sites and security bloggers have published and re-published a very well-timed and very scary report issued by iSight Partners, a security firm based out of Dallas, Texas. The report in...
Over a Million PHI Records Dump Off Systema Software
Kate Knibbs from Gizmodo started writing last last night about Systema Software, a small software company hosted in AWS (Amazon Web Services) who’s infosec practices led to a pretty large “breach” or exposure and of healthcare records to the curious,...
So You Are Thinking About Getting Into Security? Well, Meet The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Friends and acquaintances ask me all the time “what does it take to get involved in the Information Security world,” and the answer is inevitably another question, “are you sure you want to do that?” The main reason for the growing interest in...
Critics of Silk Road Judge Targeted With Grand Jury Subpoenas
by Virgil Vaduva Even outrage is now a crime in the empire of lies. The Department of Justice is apparently not happy with just sending Ross Ulbricht to prison for the rest of his life. Now they want to punish the public who is outraged by the behavior of the judge...