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Security News for the Week Ending August 30, 2019

Lenovo “Crapware” Allows Attacker to Compromise Any PC in 600 Seconds I am not going to get on my soapbox about why you should not buy a PC built by the Chinese government because I know people love their old IBM Thinkpads, but handle this issue no matter what. Apparently the Lenovo “Solutions” Center has […]

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Top Threats To Cloud Security – The Egregious Eleven

The cloud has become an important part of every companies IT solution.  Whether you are using a third party software as a service or building your our solutions in the cloud, the cloud is not risk free.  Just ask Capital One if you have any questions about that. So what are the things that you […]

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Feds Indict 80 in Romance Fraud Scheme

I was talking to an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) last week and he told me that romance scams (where a scam artist cons usually older people out of their life’s savings pretending to be romantically interested in the victim) is the second largest cyber attack reported to the Feds.  Given the announcement below, I guess […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 23, 2019

Remember That Vague Client Alert Earlier This Week? For those of you who are clients, you received an out of cycle client alert on Tuesday (they usually come out on Wednesday) providing a copy of the Homeland Security Alert on the Sodinokibi ransomware going after Managed Service Providers or MSPs.   It now appears that the […]

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Misconceptions About Vendor CYBER Risk Management

I talk about the importance of vendor cyber risk management programs all the time.  Vendors have been at the root of many very major breaches such as Target and Home Depot and more recently Capital One.  Here are some thoughts around vendor cyber risk management. The vendor is big and publicly traded so surely they […]

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