In light of the recent admission that the US Treasury Department was among the organizations compromised when vendor BeyondTrust was compromised, figuring out how to assess and doing the assessing of vendors, which today almost always includes technology, is clearly critical. A very large percentage of breaches we hear about involve vendors. For example: The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since we are almost at New Year’s eve, this post is a bit of a fun. AI knows all, right? 0.02 seconds, right? Well, not so fast. NFTEvening and Storible collaborated on a test to see how fast AI can figure out your seed phrase. First, what the heck is a seed phrase anyway? You […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Sue JPMorgan, Wells, BofA Over Zelle Fraud Given the administration is changing next month and the new administration is not fond of rules that negatively impact business, I don’t know if this lawsuit will go anywhere, but the complaint said it took Zelle years to respond at all to Zelle fraud and in most […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the ever escalating attacks against undersea critical infrastructure such as power cables, Internet cables and oil pipelines, the battle continues to heat up. You may remember the Nordstream pipelines between Russia and Europe that were disabled by explosions against the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines in 2022. Given the war in Ukraine and sanctions […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The National Defense Authorization Act is, every year, a must-pass bill that, for the last several years, has been a vehicle to pass important cybersecurity provisions. This year is no exception. The price tag on this year’s bill is $895 billion. Here are some of the cyber provisions in it. Those are just some of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Marriott Hotels acquired the Starwood Hotel chain in 2016. Two years prior to the acquisition, hackers broke into Starwood’s systems. Marriott didn’t figure out that Starwood was compromised until two years after they acquired the chain. The only reason they figured it out then was they were migrating Starwood to Marriott’s system and discovered the […]
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