In an effort to fortify our critical infrastructure security, CISA has a new program to enhance cyber resilience of participating partners using CISA’s advanced threat detection and monitoring capabilities. The program is called CyberSentry and it is designed to work across industries, in real time and monitor both traditional IT networks and those control or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like other countries, UK politicians are wrestling with how to deal with encryption. After all, the U.S. has been dealing with it since they arrested Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP encryption and they haven’t resolved the issue either. The UK wants to, basically, ban end to end encryption in the name of “protecting the children”. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We hear stories about the time it takes to weaponize security patches. This test, by Orca Security, tested a different problem. They wanted to know how long it takes hackers to discover secrets that you leave exposed in your cloud environment. They tested a variety of resources from Github to AWS. The good news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The short answer to this is yes. Why? Because no one is managing your employees’ home networks. We have seen networks where the firewall has not been patched for years. We have also seen home networks with no firewalls at all. Doesn’t your ISP provide you with a firewall? The answer is that they may. […]
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