The Colonial Pipeline attack exposed what a lot of us have been saying for years – that when it comes to U.S. critical infrastructure, the emperor has no clothes. After the attack on Colonial was dealt with, TSA issued a directive very quickly that was pretty superficial. It required, among a couple of other things, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Friday Title industry software and consulting provider was hit by a ransomware attack. Cloudstar operates 6 data centers and supports over 40,000 customer users. Now those customers are wondering what are they going to do. Cloudstar users who close real estate sales are dependent on Cloudstar’s systems being up. Cloudstar has been down since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply Chain Attacks Roll On The Accellion File Transfer Appliance vulnerabilities have been the source of many breach notifcations over the last several months. For whatever reason, they seem to be dribbling out. The newest one is Morgan Stanley. In this case, it was a Morgan Stanley VENDOR that was using Accellion, so instead of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was California (version 1 and version 2); then it was Virginia. Now it is Colorado. IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE. California’s CCPA covered human resources data somewhat. CPRA covers it completely and will require HR departments to create programs to protect HR data. This includes notices at the time data is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When people talk about IoT – Internet of Things – these days, they are thinking of Amazon Alexa or Phillips Vue lightbulbs, but where IoT started was in factories and warehouses, decades ago. Industrial automation or IIoT is still where the biggest in IoT attacks lies. Today we learned about a critical remote code execution […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The last presidential administration went hard after China – applying sanction after sanction, but with minimal success. They also seemed to give Russia a free pass. Many of the very public recent hacks are being attributed to Russia, including SolarWinds and Kaseya. When Biden met with Putin in Helsinki last month, the two agreed to […]
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