I can’t say this enough. Supply chain risk. Third party risk. Vendor risk. It is all the same thing. Fixing it is a challenge. Ignoring it is NOT a solution. First, lets talk about what happened. Hackers who call themselves ShinyHunters, formerly Spider and Lapsus$, also called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, specializes in data theft, extortion […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Uvalde was already famous – too famous. You may remember that in 2022 Uvalde was the site of a mass shooting where 19 elementary school children and two teachers were killed and 17 more were injured. It is the third deadliest school shooting at an American school. Police were not trained and they waited for an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Beware of that update; it may open a back door into your network. Yup. We have trained people to install updates to protect their systems. That works unless the hackers create fake updates for software like Chrome, Zoom and Teams. They even have given the fake updates names that seem real like MicrosoftTeams.msi. The hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]09.11.25 Security News Bites 45 New Domains Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Salt Typhoon is the group that hacked all the big telephone companies including the FBI’s wiretap portal. Recently the FBI says that the group hacked over 200 US companies. Now researchers have identified more domains being used by Salt Typhoon and another Chinese […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Switzerland has been known for being a privacy haven for decades. For years it wouldn’t even reveal banking information to law enforcement except under really limited conditions. That is now distant history. But now Switzerland is joining countries like Russia and China and instituting the ability to mass surveil its population (and even foreigners who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Batteries are used to store energy produced by photocells for when the sun isn’t shining. DoD base Camp Lejeune used Duke to install a battery energy storage system or BESS made by Japanese company Toshiba, but the batteries in the system are Chinese and send data back to China, Researchers have also shown that they […]
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