<div dir="ltr">And to add to the fear uncertainty and doubt - <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/jpmorgan-discovers-further-cyber-security-issues/">http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/jpmorgan-discovers-further-cyber-security-issues/</a><div><br><div>"A cyberattack this summer on <a title="More information about JPMorgan Chase & Company" class="" href="http://dealbook.on.nytimes.com/public/overview?symbol=JPM&inline=nyt-org">JPMorgan Chase</a> compromised the accounts of 76 million households and seven million small businesses, a tally that dwarfs previous estimates by the bank and puts the intrusion among the largest ever"<br></div><div>...</div><div>"Hackers drilled deep into the bank’s vast computer systems, reaching more than 90 servers, the people with knowledge of the investigation said. As they analyze the contours of the breach, investigators in law enforcement remain puzzled, partly because there is no evidence that the attackers looted any money from customer accounts."<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>76 million </b>households - that has to be a fairly big slice of ALL the households that JP Morgan/Chase service.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Ken Price</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">"It’s been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware. Given the severity of that security problem—and the lack of any easy patch—Nohl has held back on releasing the code he used to pull off the attack. But at least two of Nohl’s fellow researchers aren’t waiting any longer."<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/" target="_blank">www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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