This is a tale of three firewall vendors: Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet and their security challenges. First, even though we likely think of a firewall as a piece of hardware, in reality, it is just a specialized computer – think of it as the original Internet of Things device – that runs a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five of eight Ivy League schools have been hacked in the last six months. Add the most effective technique is definitely not high tech – it is plain old social engineering on the phone. Harvard discovered that its Alumni Affairs and Development systems were compromised last month. The hack exposed the personal information of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The president would like to help his campaign donors and his kids by killing off any limits on how AI is used. Since the White House has not espoused a strategy as of yet on placing any guardrails on AI (other than we don’t want any guardrails on AI), the states have stepped in and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may have heard of the Chinese cyberattack on American telecommunications giants like AT&T, Verizon and Lumen (AKA Qwest or US West). Between 2019 and AT LEAST 2024, they had free reign to listen in to conversations like Trump, Kamala Harris and millions of ordinary people, but the scope is getting much bigger. While the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a very interesting problem for developers of AI models. Likely it doesn’t impact software developers using those models, but it could affect you or your company if you develop software, even for internal use, that integrates AI functions. Follow this scenario. Some of either your own personal information or your company’s sensitive information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Cyber Command 2.0 DoD, apparently, doesn’t like it being called Cyber Command 2.0. Maybe we should call it 3.0 or 4.0. DoD has been wrestling with making Cyber Command more effective since it was formed in 2010. Multiple presidents from both parties have failed at it. Now DoD has a new plan to solve […]
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