After the Paris attacks, politicians have been falling all over themselves trying to be more anti-terrorist than the other. Prior to the attacks, the odds of the CISA bill in Congress were dicey. Now the odds are pretty high, even though that bill will do almost zero in terms of preventing terrorism. One of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While cyber breaches are in the news all the time, many businesses still have not prepared for one – even if they have experienced an attack of one form or another. Nationwide Insurance did a survey of 500 small businesses and here are some of the results: 8 out of 10 small businesses do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Pentagon has a better way to stop users from clicking on phishing email – neuter the emails. Below is an example of what the email that you send to someone in the DoD might look like before it enters the DoD email system and when the user sees it. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if Paris didn’t have enough problems, Paris’ Orly Airport had to close briefly last week because a Windows 3.1 system that sends Runway Visual Range information to pilots failed. Windows 3.1 dates back to 1992. The French air traffic control union said that Paris airports use systems running 4 operating systems, including Windows 3.1 and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]App developers, like all software developers, like to integrate existing code to reduce their workload and their time to market. Unfortunately, that does not mean that developers will follow the best practices in using that existing code. According to a presentation at Black Hat Europe this week, developers who use BaaS or Backends as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Malvertising is the term that describes taking advertising that appears on legitimate web sites and turning it into weapons. In almost all cases, the web sites involved have no knowledge of what is going on. Web sites buy ads from large ad networks such as Google and AOL. Those ad networks sign up advertisers so […]
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