Computerworld announced that “IBM’s Watson Health artificial intelligence unit has signed a two-year joint-development agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore using blockchain technology to securely share patient data for medical research and other purposes.” The January 11, 2017 article entitled “IBM Watson, FDA to…
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Forbes reported that “a hacker group calling itself Turkish Crime Family…reported having access to 300 million Apple accounts” and demanded “$75,000 in crypto-currency (either Bitcoin or Ethereum) or $100,000 in iTunes gift cards, and the data would be deleted.” The March 22, 2017 report entitled “Hackers Threaten To Wipe…
McKinsey’s interviewed Don Tapscott who defined Blockchain as an “immutable, unhackable distributed database of digital assets” which is a “giant, global spreadsheet that runs on millions and millions of computers.” The May 2016 article entitled “How blockchains could change the world” included these comments about Bitcoin:
Most blockchains—and…
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Trend Micro’s conducted a study to learn more about “how stolen medical records are monetized after a breach, what types of data are stolen, how much they are sold for on the underground markets, and how cybercriminals make use of them” and use “Shodan scan data which reveals what healthcare-related…
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Huge headlines about the Yahoo cyber indictment by the FSB should be a wake call to all businesses, however what has not been promoted by the media was the use of spearphishing which was highlighted in paragraph 17 of the Indictment:
In some instances, the conspirators used email messages…
My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses on all aspects of information cyber security, including credentialing functions, firewall and IDS deployment and monitoring, and penetration testing, and…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted its third FinTech Forum which was “designed to bring together industry participants, consumer groups, researchers, and government representatives, to examine the ways in which these technologies are being used to offer consumers services, the potential benefits, and consumer protection implications as these technologies continue…
The New York Times reported that Uber’s Greyball “uses data collected from the Uber app and other techniques to identify and circumvent officials who were trying to clamp down on the ride-hailing service.” The March 3, 2017 article entitled “How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide” said that Uber…
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Amazon is the largest cloud provider in the world, and so I doubt Amazon would ever admit a cyber intrusion caused any serious cloud outage. So February 28, 2017 following a serious cloud outage Amazon blamed on a typing error by a “Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging…
Bitdefender surveyed 250 US IT decision makers who concluded that about “34 percent of companies were breached in the past 12 months, while 74 percent of IT decision makers don’t know how the company was breached” and “Two-thirds of companies would pay an average of $124k to avoid public shaming…
