US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DNS, that service that converts www.Foxnews.com (or whatever) to 23.39.41.42 is one of the last bits of the Internet that is not encrypted. Or at least it was. Google and others have developed two different solutions to encrypt DNS – DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. These are variations of each other and I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so Teams is not a verb. But neither was Google, as in go Google it. Hackers have figured out that as people are just learning about collaboration software like Teams and Slack, there is a lot of squishiness around the edges. Say you are part of a Teams group that includes employees, contractors and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First Apple and Google removed the Parler app from both of their app stores. Then Amazon kicked them off Amazon’s AWS platform for violating their terms of service. That would seem like a problem for most companies, but that was the good part of their week. Yesterday a security researcher who goes by the nickname […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Britain Says Assange Cannot be Extradited Julian Assange, a long time thorn in the backside of some folks in the US government, cannot be extradited to the US, a British court says. The court said that while he probably can get a fair trial in the US, the court system in the US is unlikely […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Happy New Year. May 2021 be more sane than 2020. Microsoft Says Goal of Solar Winds Attack Was Your Cloud Data Microsoft says that the objective of the Solar Winds Hackers was to get into a number of organizations and then pick and choose which ones to attack, leaving the back door in place at […]
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