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What is Your Mean Time to Inventory (MTTI)?

Do you even know what this means? Actually, it means different things to different people, but they are all related. The first meaning is how long does it take a hacker to identify vulnerable systems after a vulnerability is disclosed? For example, when Microsoft disclosed the Windows Print Spooler attack, how long before hackers start […]

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Security News for the Week Ending Aug 6, 2021

Cyber Insurance Company Coalition Says Claims Payment Down From Last Year Cyber insurer Coalition says that it’s clients’ average claims for losses for ransomware attacks was $184,000 for the first half of this year, down 45% from the second half of last year. This, they say, is because they are doing better at negotiating ransoms. […]

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I Remember When Apple Was A Privacy-Focused Company

Apple is about to announce a new feature. They are going to start scanning everyone’s iPhone for banned content. Seriously. It uses neural networks and machine learning, so I am sure it will be cool. According to respected cryptography professor Matthew Green, it is going to scan everyone’s devices for child porn (now referred to […]

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Biden Issues National Security Memo on Improving Cyber of Critical Infrastructure

Following in the footsteps of the cybersecurity Executive Order, President Biden issued a National Security Memorandum last week on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems – that is the computers that control our critical infrastructure. Like the EO, this NSM has specific details. The government has created a Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to […]

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