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Two Cryptocurrency Attacks In One Week

Cryptocurrency is an interesting beast.  Unregulated by governments.  Not backed by reserves or governments.  Difficult to track IF DONE RIGHT.  Completely transparent if not done right. For all of these reasons, it is the target of attackers of all stripes. The first attack this week was in England.  Armed robbers broke into the home of […]

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Ransomware. Backups. MTTR. Disaster Recovery. Business Continuity.

Ransomware and hospitals.  Not a great combination. The Register is reporting that Hancock Hospital paid ransom attackers $60,000 to get control of their system back. Hancock Health in Indiana was hit with a ransomware attack last week.  As the hospital detected “something wrong”, they decided to shut down all hospital systems, all wellness center systems, […]

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GSA Proposing Changes To Fed Contracting CyberSec Rules

Defense contractors are wrestling with new contracting rules that went into place, sort of, as of December 31, 2017, with the requirement to be in compliance with NIST SP 800-171. NIST SP 800-171 defines over 100 cyber security requirements that defense contractors and sub-contractors must comply with.  Prime contractors must ensure that their subs are […]

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Senators, Staffers Next on Russia’s Cyber Hit List

According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East  and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]

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