We are back to pandemic level cyber fear. Security firm Proofpoint says that compared to last year, CISOs are feeling less prepared to cope with cyberattacks and more at risk. Threats are always increasing, data is being ripped off in more ways than we can count, cybersecurity budgets are not what they need to be, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Adds Dark Web Monitoring to GMail Users A feature that used to be available to paid Google One subscribers will soon be available to all GMail users. Dark web monitoring tells you if your GMail email address is found on the dark web (hint: almost all of them are due to thousands of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter wants to offer a whole bunch of services under one roof, so expect more of these. But, there are two strategies – best of breed and one throat to choke. Twitter is, apparently, going after the one throat to choke model. In the best of breed model, you pick the best tools you can […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Uber breach saga continues. Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former CISO, was convicted of lying to the feds about a breach that happened in 2016. Hackers broke in to Uber and stole data on 57 million customers and 600,000 drivers. One of the counts he was convicted of was hiding the 2016 breach from the feds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Businesses buy insurance and then they expect the insurance company to pay when they make a claim. Sometimes that happens but when it comes to cyber insurance, too often it does not. But, there are things you can do to improve your odds. First, make sure everyone understands all of the security requirements of your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
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