Comcast Xfinity Accounts Hacked in Widespread 2FA Bypass While Comcast is not saying much, a number of users who use Comcast email WITH 2FA are reporting their accounts being hacked. It appears this is due, possibly, to password reuse combined with a bug in Comcast’s system which allows the hackers to bypass 2FA. Once the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Source code is getting hacked more frequently these days. In March, Samsung announced that hackers had stolen source code to their Galaxy phones. Also in March, Microsoft said that hackers stole the source code for Bing, Maps and Cortana. In May Mercedes admitted that they had misconfigured a source code repository and anyone could download […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For you military types, BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): probably not. There are a number of reasons for my pessimism, including one I hadn’t considered. First the obvious reasons. The end of this legislative session is right around the corner and there are a lot of things that the folks in power want to get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At some point in the “relatively near future”, if are a DoD contractor, subcontractor, vendor, managed service provider or a host of other folks, you will be staring a CMMC certification in the face. Here are some thoughts from a provisional assessor on what it will take to get the job done. Hopefully this is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have never done this before; there is always a first time. I am going to copy an FBI warning here verbatim (minus some formatting changes inherent in the blog format). The short version is that hackers are using Google and ads to attack you. Also, we do sell some technical solutions that will assist […]
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