For those of us in the industry this is not a surprise, but to others it may be. That title used to belong to Russia, but not any more. Russia is busy with a war and while it still is good at launching ransomware attacks, otherwise, it is more than a bit distracted. China, on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably this does not come as a surprise. Unfortunately. Researchers analyzed a half million apps and here is what they found. One in five (20%) have hard coded the encryption keys that protect your data, so that anyone who has the app can look at your data. One in six use software libraries that have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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