Defense contractors are wrestling with new contracting rules that went into place, sort of, as of December 31, 2017, with the requirement to be in compliance with NIST SP 800-171. NIST SP 800-171 defines over 100 cyber security requirements that defense contractors and sub-contractors must comply with. Prime contractors must ensure that their subs are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is trying to keep up with the Jones (AKA Micosoft) and is building some security tools for its enterprise customers. Microsoft is way ahead in this area and if Google wants to compete in the enterprise space it needs to offer enterprise class tools. First of all, this only is available to G-Suite Enterprise […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A little over a year ago, the Mirai botnet launched a sustained attack on the servers of the Internet provider Dyn, taking it offline and thereby knocking its customers, including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and others, offline. The Mirai botnet was simple – find Internet of Things devices (IoT) that still had their default […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if it wasn’t already a bad enough month for Intel, it just got a bit worse. This is not related to Spectre or Meltdown; this is an entirely new problem. Intel processors have a remote management engine called Active Management Technology or AMT. This allows corporate administrators to remotely take over those computers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
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