crp Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Healthcare.gov test server hacked wait till you read how they hacked in - http://online.wsj.com/articles/hacker-breached-healthcare-gov-insurance-site-1409861043 Nvidia patent suit against Qualcomm, Samsung http://www.zdnet.com/nvidia-launches-patent-suit-against-qualcomm-samsung-7000033332/ Getty Images sues Microsoft over photo tool wonder how those who hate both feel about this one http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/04/us-getty-images-microsoft-lawsuit-idUSKBN0GZ2B720140904?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 This is technology at work. I said many, many years ago that when everything gets put on computers and on the Internet, the security nightmare would just get worse and worse. The good guys cannot keep up with the bad guys. This is all going to have a not-so-pretty ending, I don't think. See my thread in Security about the Home Depot data breach. It's HUGE! Yet, Home Depot is relatively silent about it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 This is technology at work. I said many, many years ago that when everything gets put on computers and on the Internet, the security nightmare would just get worse and worse. [...] the vast majority of the time , things getting put on the internet are for ease of convenience purposes. and to paraphrase, you can have ease of convenience or you can have 99.99% security. You can not have both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Healthcare.gov test server hacked wait till you read how they hacked in - http://online.wsj.co...site-1409861043 I cannot as I do not have a subscription: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 if you use the Ggle search for the url then click on the ggle'ized link, they let you see the article. don't know why , but it is a quite well known feature of ggle. anyway, here is part of the story: Investigators found the hacker was scanning both federal and private websites for a certain type of server that the person would then hack. This suggests the hacker wasn't targeting the health-care website, the official said. Washington officials said they are concerned an intruder gained access to the HealthCare.gov network through a basic security flaw. The server had low security settings because it was never meant to be connected to the Internet, the HHS official said. When the hacker broke in, it was only guarded by a default password, which often is easy to crack. "There was a door left open," the official said. The department discovered the break-in weeks later on Aug. 25 during a daily security scan. Buried amid lines of computer log files were data showing the test server had been contacted by the outside Internet, which wasn't supposed to happen. malware was loaded onto the server, which was connected to other computers within the building. http://www.google.com/search?q=http://online.wsj.com/articles/hacker-breached-healthcare-gov-insurance-site-1409861043&sa=G&hl=en&gbv=1&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbm=nws&tbo=u&ei=WDsJVM2XEMeIjALcjoCwDQ&ved=0CBQQqAI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 [...]. See my thread in Security about the Home Depot data breach. It's HUGE! Yet, Home Depot is relatively silent about it. i don't think they have been silent as much as reticent to say anything till they know more about the situation. So far there has been no direct connection made to HomeDepot as being the leak and less connection to the payment terminals that they use.If it was them and theirs, it may have even been an inside job and not a classic hack. So till they really know more, I am not going to push them for saying just anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 and then there is Goodwill .... http://news.softpedia.com/news/Card-Details-Likely-Compromised-At-Goodwill-Stores-451608.shtml 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 (edited) There's some really nasty malware out there that can get onto the POS machines. They keylog and steal info off the magnetic strip of your credit card. https://www.us-cert....lerts/TA14-212A Edited September 5, 2014 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I cannot as I do not have a subscription: Hacker breached HealthCare.gov insurance site - MarketWatch There ya go. if you use the Ggle search for the url then click on the ggle'ized link, they let you see the article. don't know why , but it is a quite well known feature of ggle. anyway, here is part of the story: malware was loaded onto the server, which was connected to other computers within the building. http://www.google.co...DQ&ved=0CBQQqAI Or search on the heading (which is how I got the MarketWatch version), some site usually picks it up. It is amazing how many there are out there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 http://nypost.com/2014/09/05/hackers-break-into-healthcare-gov-2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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