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Security News for the Week Ending October 22, 2021

State Acknowledges Data Breach After 10 Months I guess better late than never. Finally, the State of Illinois is admitting to a data breach, sort of. Here is what they are now saying. Check the dates below. Notice who was among the last to know – the victims. Can the state be fined for breaking […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 15, 2021

Microsoft Investigating Multiple Windows 11 Issues While some of the issues are not fatal, others like a memory leak in File Manager that can only be recovered from by rebooting are more of a problem. I recommend waiting for a month or two in order for other users to detect more bugs. Credit: Bleeping Computer […]

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Businesses Losing Customers due to Connected Products Security Concerns

59% of cybersecurity executives at large and medium organizations say that they have LOST business due to product security concerns for connected and embedded devices. 45% say that customers want detailed information about what is in their devices, but only 11% of companies have high confidence that they can do that, even if they want […]

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What if You Get Locked Out of Your Cloud Account?

Konstantin Gizdov has an interesting story to tell. He got locked out of his Microsoft Azure account. He doesn’t think it was hacked, it was a Microsoft software bug. More importantly, his attempts to recover the account were incredibly frustrating. The frustration was, in part, caused by the fact that Microsoft didn’t think it was […]

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Attorney Client Privilege in Cyber Land

Historically, attorney-client privilege was used to protect conversations between attorneys and their client as they were preparing their defense. While that is still the case, there is a lot of information that companies that were breached might not want to get out to the folks suing them. If it is not done right, it is […]

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