Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a well known defense contractor in DC, was hit by a ransomware attack. The tagline on the homepage of their website says that they are enabling a more secure future. A Google search last week for the company brought up these results: The researcher who discovered the problem said it seems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Medical devices have never been subjected to much security testing – a fact that the FDA may argue with, but which is visibly accurate. This time it is GE’s CIC Pro, a workstation that hospital staff uses to manage multiple GE patient devices on a ward. They can use the device to monitor patients or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe this is the NEW AND IMPROVED NSA. From the NSA document: This document divides cloud vulnerabilities into four classes (misconfiguration, poor access control, shared tenancy vulnerabilities, and supply chain vulnerabilities) that encompass the vast majority of known vulnerabilities. Cloud customers have a critical role in mitigating misconfiguration and poor access control, but can also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Breaches Gone Wild – Very Wild Since EU’s GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018 – about 18 months ago – 160,000 Breaches have been reported to EU authorities. A calculator will tell you that means that people are reporting between 250 and 300 security incidents A DAY! If you think that magically, 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Swatting, the very illegal and sometimes deadly practice of making a prank call to 911 in attempt to get SWAT police to storm a building is apparently on the rise. The premise is often that someone is holding a hostage or threatening to murder someone which puts the cops in a no win situation. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As we get closer to the January 31st deadline for the UK to sort of kind of leave the EU, the bill that the PM’s side so carefully drafted may or may not hold together. Over the last two days, the House of Lords voted against Johnson 5 times, forcing the bill back to the […]
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