And, I suspect, an attorney may be looking for a new job. About a week ago the New York Times disclosed that a former employee who was suing Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) received data that he had not asked for – 1.4 gigabytes of data, actually. Data on, he said, over 50,000 high net worth […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swedish government has become embroiled in a scandal after an IT outsourcing deal went horribly wrong. There was an old TV commercial that included the line “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”, implying that IBM was a safe bet. Not in this case. The Swedish Transport Agency decided to outsource it’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fedex was one of the companies that announced last month that they were affected by the Petya un-ransomware (it operated like ransomware, but there was no decryption key, even if you paid the ransom). It is interesting that most of the time there is some sort of malware attack you do not get much information, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that large companies could control the news cycle. Used to be, that is. Now, with social media, in reality, no one is in control of the news cycle. Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, whom you would think would know a thing or two about the news […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lately we have had the opportunity to see inside some ransomware attacks and what the cost has been to businesses. For example, I wrote about the Petya malware and what it did to the shipping giant Maersk and the law firm giant DLA Piper. Now we get to find out what happened inside a different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you don’t have a board, then the CEO would be a great person to ask these questions. The key thing is that the CIO and CISO need to be able to answer them. The questions came from (Dell) Secureworks. If you are the CIO or CISO, you should ask and answer these questions before […]
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