As reported by Car and Driver & others, the Ford Motor Company has filed a patent with the USPTO for systems and methods that aid in vehicle repossession. What could possibly go wrong? Ford first filed for the patent in 2021 but it was formally published just last week. The idea is to allow the automaker to ease the process […]
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Ford Patents System for Self-Repossessing Vehicles…. Which Is Not A Good Idea From My Perspective
March 4, 2023FTC To American Companies: Fix Log4j Issues OR ELSE
January 5, 2022Companies in the USA should consider this fair warning. The FTC has issued a warning to US companies that it will go after any company that fails to protect its customers’ data against ongoing Log4j attacks: The duty to take reasonable steps to mitigate known software vulnerabilities implicates laws including, among others, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Gramm […]
TELUS Customers Have Joined Rogers Customers In Being The Targets Of A Phone #Scam
August 21, 2023Recently, I wrote about being the target of a phone scam using the Rogers name. Well, I had a reader of this blog reach out to me last night to say that he had been targeted in similar scam using the TELUS name. The person told me that the threat actor offered him a $40 […]
Independent Living Is Largest Healthcare Hack of 2023 – SO FAR
March 17, 2023On March 14th, Miami based Independent Living Systems (ILS) disclosed a healthcare data breach that impacted more than 4 million individuals, the largest reported healthcare data breach of 2023, so far. More on the so far part later. Hackers were in their network from June 30th to July 5, 2020, when the company discovered that […]
Desjardins Settles Class Action Lawsuit To Make Data Breach Issues Go Away
December 27, 2021A few years back I wrote about a far from trivial data breach involving Canadian Bank Desjardins. The source of the leak was a bad actor that was inside the company. Or put another way, a Desjardins employee. That’s pretty bad and illustrates that the bank was asleep at the switch. Now that lapse is going […]
Sigh…. Log4j Will Be With Us For A Long Time
January 11, 2022Security professionals will be dealing with the fallout from the Log4j bug for a long time to come, top officials for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Monday: If left unpatched or otherwise unfixed, the major security flaw discovered a month ago in the Java-logging library Apache Log4j poses risks for huge swaths of the internet. The […]
I Had To Deal With The Aftermath Of A Facebook #Scam… Here’s How You Can Avoid Being A Victim
April 6, 2024Yesterday I was preparing my first coffee of the day when I got a phone call from a client who was in a panic. Here’s why she was in a panic. The client has a Facebook account and she went to reset her password. However Facebook never sent her a verification code as per this […]
BREAKING: US Department Of Justice Indicts 4 Chinese Nationals In Equifax Hack
February 10, 2020In the last few minutes, news is coming out that four Chinese Nationals are being charged by the US Department Of Justice in relation to the Equifax hack. The Washington Post has the details: In a nine-count indictment filed in federal court in Atlanta, federal prosecutors alleged that four members of the People’s Liberation Army […]
Here’s ANOTHER Example As To Why #Scams Are So Dangerous
September 16, 2023Last year I posted a story about a scam that was extremely dangerous to an elderly couple. As bad as that was, I recently came across another scam that had some really negative effects on an elderly woman. This story started just before 7AM on Friday when the woman in question called my office phone […]
Economic Pressures has Fraud and Auto Theft on the Minds of Canadians: Equifax Canada
February 27, 2024A new survey* by Equifax Canada sheds light on a public increasingly worried about the potential rise in fraudulent activity across industries. In addition, Equifax Canada data shows mortgage fraud and identity fraud continuing to escalate across the country as economic pressure continue. Key Overall Findings: Equifax Data: Tracking Identity Fraud Across All SectorsWhile overall […]
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