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Cybersecurity News for the Week Ending April 30, 2021

Signal Tells Cellebrite to Back Off Signal is the encrypted message app created by white hat hacker Moxie Marlinspike and his team. Cellebrite is the Israeli company that cracks cells phones for law enforcement. Cellebrite claims to be able to crack Signals messages (it is not clear if they are breaking the crypto or have […]

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8% of Companies That Pay Ransom Get All of Their Data Back

Well that is a pretty depressing headline, but that is what the statistics say. According to a Sophos study, the average cost of a ransomware attack jumped from $761,000 to $1.85 million over the last year. The average ransomware payment is now $170,000. More worrysome, only 8% of the organizations say that they got all […]

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Supply Chain Attacks -Its the New Thing

The most famous supply chain attack of the last few years was the SolarWinds attack. That attack was a home run for the Russians. Other hackers (or maybe the same ones) thought that was a great attack vector. Now it seems to have become quite popular. Then came DevOps tool provider Codecov. Hackers compromised Codecov, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending April 23, 2021

USTRANSCOM Starts CMMC Lite Now The DoD’s transportation command, the folks who are in charge of getting all the stuff that the military needs from where it is to where it needs to be, has announced that they are implementing a light version of CMMC NOW instead of waiting for the five years that it […]

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What Will the New State Privacy Laws Mean

As California and Virginia start rolling out their new privacy laws and Washington and Florida look like they will be next, what is the impact on businesses? Most companies are likely going to implement a strategy of this state is the most aggressive. Lets follow this one and we should be good for all the […]

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