This is a secondary problem of vendor cyber risk. The first problem is that you are dependent on a lot of vendors. You have to depend on those vendors. If they screw up, you get sued. And you lose customers. To make matters worse, when one of your vendors gets breached, you are only one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week it was revealed that VoIP communications company 3CX was compromised and was distributing a malicious version of their desktop software to hundreds of thousands of paying customers. This is not an attack where users go to find sketchy websites and download “free” software that should be paid for. Rather, this is licensed software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter to Open-Source Recommendation Algorithm Not related to the announcement that some of their code was stolen last year and posted on GitHub, Twitter says they plan to publish their recommendation algorithm, which they say, no one left at the company understands. They say this will likely be embarrassing, but good for users. They also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you have not notice, email security firm Cofense scanned emails from 35 million of its customers. Luckily, they used machine learning to do the analysis. Cofense’s report has these major conclusions: The numbers are a bit mind boggling. Among the statistics – A third of the phishing emails have a finance theme. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If this seems hyperbolic, it may not be. In December 2020 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Ripple, who provides infrastructure for cross-border payments and also its executives with conducting a 1.3 billion dollar unregistered security offering. The core of this is whether their XRP cryptocurrency is a security. Ripple has been fighting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I previously wrote about one of several recent attacks on LastPass. Now we are learning more about how it happened and this should be a warning to companies that allow BYOD or bring your own device. Note this is not a Windows or Mac issue; nor is a computer vs. phone issue. In fact, all […]
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