If you ask the Department of Homeland Security, FBI or the Election Assistance Commission, they say Slow down, bucko. Securing Internet voting is hard to do. Very hard to do. Internet voting falls into several categories: Sending ballots digitally to voters Sending ballots digitally, marking them only and printing out the results to return the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Insurance brokers and industry attorneys say that cyber insurance is heating up. They are seeing both an uptick in CLAIMS and an uptick INQUIRIES, likely as a result of an uptick in attacks. Actually, the uptick in attacks is more like a flood since Covid-19 came around. Note that many of them won’t be detected […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Pitney Bowes Hit By Ransomware for 2nd Time in 7 Months Pitney Bowes has verified that it has been hit by a ransomware attack for the second time in 7 months. This time it is the maze ransomware, which steals data before encrypting your systems. Sometimes ransomware hackers leave their hooks in a victim’s system […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: To add insult to injury, scammers are taking advantage of the situation and sending emails to people telling them that have come in contact with someone who tested positive and they should click on this link. It goes without saying that no good could possibly come from that, so don’t click. Credit: Computer Weekly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I bet there is a large chunk of the folks reading this that will say that we don’t use open source software. And then there is another large chunk that says we’re good; all up to date. My guess is that both of these statements are wrong. Synopsys did a study and found these two […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]President Trump has been trying to get other countries to follow his thoughts on punishing China by banning Huawei from participating in their 5G networks with almost no one following his wishes. The UK, however, is using a different approach. Tobias Ellwood, a member of the UK Parliament and the Chairman of the Defence Committee […]
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