Baltimore Ransomware Attack Could Be Blamed on the NSA I think this is what they call a tease. Technically correct, however. You may remember the NSA hacking tool that got out into the wild called EternalBlue? It was leaked by the hacking group ShadowBrokers in 2017. Before that, it exploited a Microsoft bug that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And it continues to be a major issue for some reason. This week researchers found 85 gigabytes of security log data (talk about a nightmare for a business to expose that) in an elastic search database. The server was discovered on May 27th and the data goes back to April 19th, so that might be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not directly a security issue. Or a privacy issue. Because the County did not get hacked. BUT it still is important to businesses. And governments. Juries are no longer sitting back and allowing organizations to ignore basic privacy law without consequences. In this case it is Bucks County, Pennsylvania (population about 650,000), and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message service providers be able to provide unencrypted copies of messages if requested. This is, of course, not new. The Crypto Wars started in the 1990s with Phil Zimmerman and PGP and continues to this day. A few […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SalesForce Gives Users Access To All of Your Company’s Data In what can only be called an Oops, SalesForce deployed a script last Friday that gave users of certain parts of SalesForce access to all of the data that a company had on the system. The good news is that it didn’t show you anyone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a report released by cloud security vendor Zscaler, 91% of the traffic that they saw coming through their network security devices from IoT “things” was NOT encrypted. This is on enterprise networks where one might think that security is more important, so maybe the number is even higher on home networks, although it […]
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