Iran or Russia – Who Should We Worry About? The FBI and the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday issued a joint warning that a Kremlin hacking crew is probing or breaking into systems belonging to the US government and aviation industry. The joint advisory states that the team, known as Energetic Bear among […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]5 Eyes Ask For Crypto Backdoor – Again Law enforcement does not like it if they cannot snoop whenever they want. It has been a problem since encryption started to be used by the masses. The CIA, for example, even went to go so far as to BUY the Swiss encryption company Crypto AG, insert […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orca Security scanned more than 2,200 virtual appliance images – the same ones that your company probably uses every day. The images represented over 500 vendors. They were found on the marketplaces at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others. They included both open source and commercial (licensed) software. Orca created a scoring system that ran from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI has said for years that paying a ransomware ransom was a bad idea. It encourages the bad guys and funds their bad guy activities. But last week the decision became harder when the Treasury department said that they were going to add ransomware organizations that are connected to terrorist organizations to the list […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]False Claims Act Means Big Fines I had heard about the Department of Justice going after companies for misrepresenting things in federal contracts. I remember that Cisco paid a fine of less than $10 million, so I didn’t think it really meant much. But in a press release, the DoJ says that they recovered over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are a number of obvious ways like compromising the election software that voters use to vote, but that is likely to be hard to do. They are spreading disinformation which may cause Americans to not trust the election process and therefore not vote. That is much easier to do and some of our elected […]
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