There is a term in the cyber security world called dwell time. Dwell time is the amount of time between the time an attacker breaks in and the good guys figure that out. In 2011 the average dwell time was over 400 days. According to a just released Mandiant report, that number is now only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has a interesting strategy. Build prototypes of products. Show them or leak them. See if anyone cares. Kill them if it doesn’t work out – there are lots of examples. After many users are already using them. One other thing that they do is attempt to lock users into the Google ecosystem. Of course. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Way back in the dark ages of 2013 the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released a document regarding processing credit cards in the cloud. It was 52 pages. This month the PCI SSC released a new version of that same document. It is now 83 pages. This version seems to better understand the risk […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It wasn’t so long ago that 4 digit passcodes were the norm. Now 6 digit passcodes are obsolete. GrayKey, the new kid on the block offering low cost cracking of iPhones up to and including the iPhone X requires users who are concerned about that to change their password habits. Pricing on Graykey, supposedly, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oxygen equipment maker Inogen announced that information on 30,000 customers was hacked as an attacker compromised the credentials of an employee. In the grand scheme of breaches, this one barely registers. Yes, HIPAA protected information was taken (and Health and Human Services may come after them in say 2021, but it is another example of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SESTA/FOSTA was a bill that was supposedly designed to shut down sex trafficking sites on the Internet by effectively repealing the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which protects online service providers like Facebook and Google from being prosecuted for the postings of their users. The bills, which have been around […]
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