The FBI, NSA, CISA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK (AKA the US and the Five-Eyes Countries) issued a joint advisory on Chinese cyber tactics in light of the Guam critical infrastructure attack. Living off the Land means an attack that uses existing, already installed, vendor signed software to launch an attack and maintain […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lets ignore the usual side effects of ransomware like it disrupts your business, costs you a lot of money if you are hacked and makes your clients annoyed. Sometimes that escalates a bit. The Oklahoma Institute of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology posted a notice on it doors earlier in the month announcing that it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The right to repair movement is very active and vocal and demanding that the government force companies to allow people to repair things that they buy. The question is whether you OWN those things that you buy. Manufacturers have been saying not really. You are kind of renting it. There is no national “right to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The feds have upped the game and are going after companies that get breached that do not have effective cybersecurity programs. In this case, practice management software vendor Professional Business Systems, Inc. The company, who does business under the name Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions failed to install a firewall patch in January 2019. That failure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is always a dark side to any piece of tech. AI is no exception. Dozens of verified Twitter accounts with large numbers of followers showed this picture today. Only the photo posted on Twitter did not have a big red FAKE on it. Accounts such as @WarMonitors, @BloombergFeed, and RT posted an image of a large, gray smoke […]
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