The Census Bureau admits that they were hit by a cyberattack last year while they were tallying the U.S. population, but not to worry – the servers compromised weren’t being used to conduct the tally. Trust them. According the the Inspector General, the Census Bureau missed multiple opportunities to stop the attack. How would you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While many executive orders are a waste of good space in the Federal Register, so far executive branch agencies seem to be taking the Executive Order on Improving Cybersecurity seriously. The most recent result is that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered federal agencies to start documenting software that is identified as critical. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Colonial Pipeline attack exposed what a lot of us have been saying for years – that when it comes to U.S. critical infrastructure, the emperor has no clothes. After the attack on Colonial was dealt with, TSA issued a directive very quickly that was pretty superficial. It required, among a couple of other things, […]
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