More Information on the Baltimore Cyberattack Baltimore estimates that it will wind up spending $18 million to recover from the cyberattack – which is why many organization just pay the ransom. The attackers only wanted $103,000 or less than 1 percent of what they are going to spend. Of course, if an organization does that, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security of all computers is dependent on three things: The Hardware The Operating System The Apps When it comes to the iPhone, Apple does a great job of making sure the hardware is secure. The Secure Enclave is the best in the industry and Apple spends a lot of money testing their hardware. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Privacy Act was introduced last month. Like California’s CCPA, it gives consumers more power over their data, but in addition to that, it would require companies to put their customer’s privacy before their own interests. I am sure that there will be a huge lobbying effort by special interests. While the sponsor is still […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the weekend, Google suffered an outage that lasted about 4 hours. (See Google Appstatus Dashboard) The good news is that the outage happened on a Sunday afternoon because that reduced the impact of the outage. Next time it could happen on a Monday morning instead. The outage took down virtually every Google service at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Baltimore Ransomware Attack Could Be Blamed on the NSA I think this is what they call a tease. Technically correct, however. You may remember the NSA hacking tool that got out into the wild called EternalBlue? It was leaked by the hacking group ShadowBrokers in 2017. Before that, it exploited a Microsoft bug that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And it continues to be a major issue for some reason. This week researchers found 85 gigabytes of security log data (talk about a nightmare for a business to expose that) in an elastic search database. The server was discovered on May 27th and the data goes back to April 19th, so that might be […]
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