With elections less than two months away and lots of stories about election hacking, what is the real story. Unfortunately, the real story is classified so even if I did know, which I don’t, I couldn’t tell you. The government won’t admit that straight out, but they know a whole lot more than they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Centurylink Routing Issues Lead to Massive Internet Outage Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, Centurylink had a bit of a problem, either taking down or severely impacting web site such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Steam, Twitter and many more. Just because a system was designed to stay operating in case of a nuclear attack does not mean that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While Russia is not the only country who wants to mess with our elections, the do have a lot of experience at it. During the 2016 and 2018 elections, they figured no one was minding the store, so they went about their disinformation campaigns very blatantly. After all, why bother to hide your actions if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware is an Equal Opportunity Business As American businesses deal with ever increasing ransomware attacks, larger ransom demands and ransom and extortion wrapped up together, we are not alone. Not that the fact that we are not alone should make us feel better. A new Iranian hacker group is using Dharma ransomware to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a follow up to yesterday’s newsletter alert and sorry, it is a bit technical, but I will try to make it as untechnical as possible. Up to a few years ago, if you ran a website, you could buy an HTTPS (also known as a TLS or SSL) certificate that didn’t expire for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]August 13th, a Day That Will Live in Confusion August 13th is the day that Part B of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act went into effect. It bans the use of equipment and services tied to certain Chinese companies that have been deemed security threats by the United States. Companies that […]
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