More Countries Issue Travel Advisories for Travel to US The White House is trying to spin growing international concerns over travel to the U.S. in response to U.S. immigration and transgender rights policies, among other issues. Countries updating their advisories include New Zealand, Germany and the U.K, citing concerns over terrorism, civil unrest and stricter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I always say, the reason we have so much cybercrime is that it really pays. Here is the “elevator pitch” version. Remember, this only represents the people who reported the crimes to the FBI. That means that this number is dramatically low. And, while the number of complaints reported year over year is up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why? Because they are soft targets with underfunded and understaffed cybersecurity programs, if they have cybersecurity programs at all and many of them are vendors to Fortune 1000 companies, creating an easy backdoor in. Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are just trying to stay afloat in the chaos and don’t understand that they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has confirmed an attack on all 1.8 billion GMail users’ data. If you are one of those 1.8 billion, continue reading. I saw this attack a couple of weeks ago and kind of blew it off, but apparently, it is significant. You get an email that looks like it came from Google and even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Work from Home Security Considerations As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Companion bills in the Florida House and Senate would require social media companies to add backdoors to their security to allow law enforcement to eavesdrop on users’ conversations if they want to. SB 868 and HB 743 would require social media platforms to decrypt users’ data if asked to by law enforcement (it would require […]
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