Thru October, depository institutions (mainly banks) filed 440,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to check fraud according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FINCEN. Last year, for the same period, that number was 420,000. This puts us on track for 500,000 reports for the year, which is double the number from 2021. To help […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Health and Human Services (HHS) says it is planning to take a range of actions to reduce cyberattacks on hospitals which have gone a bit crazy in the last few years. They released the proposal yesterday. The plan is to tie the new cybersecurity requirements through the Medicare and Medicaid programs, tying payments to baseline […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Real ID, a misguided effort by the feds to make everyone have a less easily fakeable driver’s license (notice I did not say a secure driver’s license) came out of the 9-11 attacks. For the last 20 years the feds have been trying to get the states to implement the law, with many states resisting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No big surprise here. Researchers have gotten full read and write access to Meta’s Bloom, Meta-Llama and Pythia large language models in a typical example of supply chain risk. If they had been hackers or a non-friendly nation, they could have poisoned the training data, stolen the models and datasets and other unfriendly things. AI […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have long reported that hackers love to break into law firms. This is in part due to the fact that many law firms do not have good cybersecurity practices, especially small firms. The other part is that breaking into a law firm is like winning the lottery. Instead of getting one customer’s data, they […]
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