Historically, we have physical universe attacks like Columbine or Gaza and the many variants in between. Then we have the cyber universe attacks like Caesar’s Casino and Crowdstrike (which was a cyber incident but not an attack). But more recently, we have begun to see cyber-physical attacks. The Colonial Pipeline attack that shut down the […]
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For those of you who contract to the DoD or Department of Education – or are a vendor to those who are, this will apply to you sooner; for other executive branch agencies, it will take a little longer. The section of Title 32, the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that the DoD […]
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Unregistered Crypto Trading Platform Settles with the SEC the eToro stock and crypto trading platform settled with the SEC for $1.5 million and agreed to restrict their services for US customers. They were charged with running and unregistered broker and unregistered clearing agency. The feds are slow and there are a lot of crooks, but […]
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People’s credit reports are very important. They affect the ability to get a loan and also the interest rates they pay. In some cases, they would no longer be able to get a mortgage. or get a job. The Consumer Financial Protection bureau (CFPB) says that the bank’s conduct harmed hundreds of thousands of consumers. […]
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This is, unfortunately, not the first time I have seen stories like this. And, to make matters worse, it is a really hard crime to stop. The feds are not releasing the name of the company, but it will eventually come out. A Somerset County, NJ “industrial company” was locked out of 254 servers after […]
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Okay, let me start with this post is going to be a bit geeky. If you are not into geek, you can probably skip it. Telegram is a social media platform mostly used in countries where the likes of Meta and Twitter are banned. People use it for similar reasons. Sort of. Over the weekend […]
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