Ubiquiti All But Confirms Breach Story As the stories about Ubiquiti’s really bad attempts to save their reputation after a breach earlier this year swirled, they were completely silent, other than a very short statement. Now they have posted a statement on their user forum that says that they have no evidence that customer information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fitch Ratings, one of the big creditworthiness ratings firms for businesses, published an alert today regarding the impact of cyberattacks on an organization’s creditworthiness. Their ratings affect an organization’s ability to borrow money because they are worried that unexpected events like cyberattacks could pose financial and operating risks that ultimately affect an organization’s ability to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Director General Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks. He said that foreign hackers are taking advantage of the Intelligence community’s blind spot – adversaries working INSIDE the United States. Our adversaries can come into the United States, set up shop on the web, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCPA went into effect just over a year ago. Now we have some history on it. DataGrail is a vendor that helps companies like OVERSTOCK and OKTA respond to those CCPA requests. They have fulfilled millions of “data subject requests” for their clients. Here is what they found. 46% of the requests were to tell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, let me just say this at the beginning. This post is opinion. There is certainly factual information (or the closest to fact that we have), but in the end, this is just my opinion. Currently, most cyber breaches are not reported. Even when breaches are reported, they are often missing key information, hard to […]
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