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Regulators Update Cyber Security Regs for Electric Utilities

Very few of my readers run electric utilities – those are the ones that these regulations apply to directly. Then there are folks who are suppliers to utilities.  And suppliers to those suppliers.  The new regs require that utilities have a decent vendor cyber risk management program.  That increases the pool of interested parties a […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending March 27, 2020

Hacker Sells 538 Million Weibo Accounts Karma is a B**tch. With all of the Chinese hacking efforts, someone is hacking back.  Is it us?  Not clear.  In any case, the data includes information like real names, site names, location, etc. and 172 million of the 538 million records include users’ phone numbers, but not passwords.  […]

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Your Home Internet Router – Are You Inviting Hackers to the Party?

Your home Internet connection router or modem is the front line of defense against Internet intruders. Think of it as soldiers “manning the wall”, armed to the teeth, ready to repel intruders. At least, hopefully repelling intruders. But what if, instead of that scenario, your guards had turned into Benedict Arnold and were working for […]

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What Happens When Your Fintech Provider Gets Hacked?

Fintech is a term, that refers, loosely, to all of those companies that want to “help” you manage your financial data in the cloud and are not banks.  Examples are Mint, Chime, Credit Karma, Coinbase, Kabbage and hundreds of others.  Fintech can also include service providers to banks. Here is the problem. Fintechs are not […]

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