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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The law firm Baker Hostetler published its 2023 Data Security Incident Response Report. It is based on more than 1,100 cybersecurity incidents investigated by them last year. Here are some of the statistics they published: The most common actions after initial access were: While a blockchain data analysis company said that the total amount of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Most people know about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, funded, in part, by a massive infusion of cash from Microsoft. People also are aware of the privacy concerns of GPT-type tools. In many cases, the damage is not intentional, but accidental. People submitting sensitive queries without thinking about it. Also, as more and more software incorporates GPT-tools under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While some people go out of their way to talk about other – non-friendly – countries conducting information warfare ops, it is useful to understand that everyone does it and that includes us. Just one example. The U.S. has many of these examples. The U.S. Army Cyber Command told defense contractors it planned to surveil […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, The DSA overhauls the EU’s core platform regulation, the e-Commerce Directive, and is intended to be an important tool in making the internet a fairer place by setting out new legal responsibilities for online platforms and educating users on why content is removed and what they can do about it. […]
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