Stories – and only stories – abound about whether the Ruskies have infiltrated the US power grid – years ago. The government is not going to tell the truth for fear of scaring the crap out of people. On March 5th a “cyber event” interrupted the power grid in parts of the western United States. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The fourth annual benchmark on cyber resilience authored by Larry Ponemon and paid for by IBM shows that 77% of the organizations surveyed do not have a cybersecurity incident response program applied consistently across the organization. Does your organization have an effective, trained and tested cybersecurity incident response program (CSISP) that works across all parts […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As Terrorists Blow Up Soft Targets, Sri Lanka Turns Off Social Media As Sri Lanka is dealing with multiple bombs exploding at churches and hotels, the country’s solution to the inevitable use of social media to fan flames and release propaganda, in addition to news is to turn off social media. At the current time, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With the government doing just about zero when it comes to protecting you from Internet of Things security hacks, this leaves the entire burden on you. A hacker broke into two different GPS tracker apps – he hacked about 7,000 iTrack accounts and 20,000 ProTrack accounts. In general hacking into someone’s web account might cost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI says that reported losses due to Business EMail Compromise attacks reached a whopping $1.3 billion in 2018, double the losses reported in 2017. On the other hand, the number of ransomware complaints is down to levels reported in 2014. There were 20,373 Business EMail Attacks reported last year, compared to 15,690 in 2017. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week, I wrote about the Wipro hack (if you didn’t see that post, click on the search box and enter Wipro). While Wipro is being pretty close-mouthed about what happened due to the inevitable lawsuits, SLA complaints and even claims of breached contracts, it isn’t stopping the media from reporting on it. In fact, […]
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