{"id":182889,"date":"2015-05-12T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/12\/im-shocked-shocked-to-find-that-gambling-is-going-on-in-here\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T03:24:00","slug":"im-shocked-shocked-to-find-that-gambling-is-going-on-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/12\/im-shocked-shocked-to-find-that-gambling-is-going-on-in-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going on in Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 350px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img73.imageshack.us\/img73\/2451\/ricklouiegambling248356no6.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img73.imageshack.us\/img73\/2451\/ricklouiegambling248356no6.jpg\" width=\"340\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Cue Captain Renault<\/i><\/div>\n<p>A whistle blower at Tiversa is alleging that <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/07\/technology\/tiversa-labmd-ftc\/index.html\">the company manufactured false evidence of breaches to gin up business<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A bombshell lawsuit is raising eyebrows in the cybersecurity industry.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A former cybersecurity forensic examiner named Richard Wallace is claiming that his former employer \u2014 cybersecurity company Tiversa \u2014 &#8220;would typically make up fake data breaches to scare potential clients,&#8221; CNNMoney reports.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Wallace claims that Tiversa would routinely do this then &#8220;pressure firms to pay up&#8221; by buying its cybersecurity services, according to a federal courtroom transcript obtained by CNNMoney. This came to a head when Tiversa allegedly approached cancer testing services company LabMD about a supposed hack. LabMD refused to buy into Tiversa\u2019s services, so Tiversa allegedly reported the cancer-testing company to the FTC for having a data breach.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">This lawsuit raises some potentially worrisome issues about practices in the cybersecurity industry.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee you think?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the f%$#ing Wild West out there, with no standards of what constitutes a breach, and no meaningful certification of the security firms.<\/p>\n<p>People have been selling cyber Armageddon, with only one concrete example of their horror stories panning out (Stuxnet which was created by the US and Israeli government), why is it a surprise when we discover that people are selling &#8220;breaches&#8221; that are either non existent or minor.<\/p>\n<p>I guess being a cybersecurity consultant beats working for a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue Captain Renault A whistle blower at Tiversa is alleging that the company manufactured false evidence of breaches to gin up business: A bombshell lawsuit is raising eyebrows in the cybersecurity industry.A former cybersecurity forensic examiner named Richard Wallace is claiming that his former employer \u2014 cybersecurity company Tiversa \u2014 &#8220;would typically make up fake &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1005,1060,970,985,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-computer","category-corruption","category-regulation","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}