Those of you in the mortgage industry know the name of Rob Chrisman well. He runs a well known blogger and speaker and he even features me occasionally. He wrote about a phishing attack reported by a mortgage lender in Colorado. How many red flags do you see in this story? Would your employees or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week we got a call from one of our customers, a bit frantic (I am not going to say anything about who they are), asking for an assessment about whether they had been hacked. After a little investigating, we decided that the answer was no, but so began a story that lasted for four […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security firm Black Kite says that 20 percent of America’s largest 100 defense contractors are highly susceptible to a ransomware attack. Why do they say this? Nearly 43% of federal defense contractors have out-of-date systems, giving them a D+ rating for patch management. 42% of contractors have had at least one credential compromised in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why? Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence! For those of you who are not familiar with MI-6, even via a somewhat romanticized version in James Bond movies, MI-6 is Britain’s spy agency. Working along MI-5 and GCHQ, their goal is to protect Britain from the bad guys. MI-6, similar to our CIA, prefers to stay in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China’s policymaking body, the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (I did not make up this name) approved a plan yesterday for developing home grown science and technology with an eye toward self-sufficiency. According to a press release by the state run news agency, Xi said that while China has made substantial progress in trying to […]
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