Equifax Failed to Patch, Now Fails as a Company
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Equifax breach, profit pressures squeeze open-source community, says Signal coder
The open-source community may be headed toward a major turning point, thanks to a security breach of epic scale.
When news broke this month that the personal credit records, including names, birthdates, Social Security Numbers and home addresses of 143 million people had been breached at the credit rating bureau Equifax Inc., there was outrage. As more details have emerged, reports have placed some of the blame on an open-source server framework called Apache Struts, although representatives from that project have issued their own statement questioning whether vulnerabilities in open-source software led to a hack of historic proportions.
Even if it’s found that a flaw in Apache Struts led to the massive breach, open source is not going away. In fact, major tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon Web Services Inc., have recently put significant support behind open-source projects and startup investment in the field — reaching $3.5 billion between 2012 and 2015.
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Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
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Scammers keep trying to sell fake Equifax facts
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Equifax hackers stole data for 200k credit cards from transaction history
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Equifax Breach: What We Know and Don't Know
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Equifax says web server vulnerability led to hack
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Equifax had patch 2 months before hack and didn’t install it, security group says
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Equifax traced the source of its massive hack to a preventable software flaw
Credit agency Equifax traced the theft of sensitive information about 143 million Americans to a software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred, further undermining its credibility as the guardian of personal data that can easily be used for identity theft.
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The FTC is looking into the Equifax breach
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The pressure is rising on Equifax after FTC confirms investigation and Schumer calls out CEO
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FTC Advice On How To Deal With Equifax Hack: Er... Race The Hackers To Filing Your Taxes Before They Do
So, yes, by now you know all about the whole Equifax hack and how really, really terrible it is. Lots of sites have been posting various stories about what you should do about it, when the truth is you really can't do much. A lot of people are likely going to deal with an awful lot of bad stuff almost entirely because of this leak by Equifax. Not surprisingly, the FTC has weighed in with some suggestions, most of which won't actually help very much. Most of them are the standard suggestions everyone's giving -- including checking your credit reports, putting a credit freeze on your files and basically watching very closely to see if you're fucked over by whoever has access to these files.
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Equifax CIO, CSO “retire” in wake of huge security breach
According to a press release, the company said that its Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and Chief Security Officer, Susan Mauldin, would be leaving the company immediately and were being replaced by internal staff. Mark Rohrwasser, who has lead Equifax’s international IT operations, is the company’s new interim CIO. Russ Ayres, who had been a vice president for IT at Equifax, has been named as the company’s new interim CSO.
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