A New Trend? Insurers Offering Consumers Ransomware Coverage In what may be a new trend, Mercury Insurance is now offering individuals $50,000 of ransomware insurance in case your cat videos get encrypted. The good news is that the insurance may help you get your data back in case of an attack. The bad news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As computers and software become more integrated into every facet of our lives, and as security attacks on our infrastructure become part of the news every day, the question of software patches and upgrades need to become a factor in purchasing decisions. Whether it is a consumer Internet connected baby monitor (who’s bugs have compromised […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Department of Defense is probably the largest software development (and hardware development) organization in world but unlike say Microsoft or Cisco, almost all of the development is performed by third parties – the so called defense industrial base or DIB. It is also likely the number one target of nation state hackers since a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco: Critical Bug Allows Remote Takeover of Routers Cisco rated this bug 10 out of 10. For users of Cisco 4000 series ISRs, ASR 1000 series aggregation routers, 1000v cloud routers and integrated services virtual routers, an unauthenticated user can gain full control just by sending a malicious HTTP request. So yet another reminder that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Census wants people to respond online because it will save them money. They don’t have to transfer data from paper forms and they don’t have to send census workers out. From a pure finance standpoint, it makes perfect sense. The census will cost us about $15 billion this time around. And, from a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo “Crapware” Allows Attacker to Compromise Any PC in 600 Seconds I am not going to get on my soapbox about why you should not buy a PC built by the Chinese government because I know people love their old IBM Thinkpads, but handle this issue no matter what. Apparently the Lenovo “Solutions” Center has […]
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