Here is some data to consider: The US General Accounting Office (GAO) says the percentage of businesses buying cyber risk insurance jumped from 26% in 2016 to 47% in 2020. Here is why. Coalition insurance released some data from their claims history. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) continues to be a big problem according to Coalition […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A cybersecurity vendor for one of Mexico’s largest banks sent a cease-and-desist to a cybercrime forum saying that an auction on the site for data stolen from the bank – data for 10 million customers – was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation. So what did the web site’s administrator do? Not what the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to get a lot of good news when it comes to cybersecurity. Here is one good story. Katie Yates received some nude photos of a friend, Natalie Claus (normally we don’t use names, but these women are working hard to make a point that there is nothing to be ashamed of and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Small businesses especially, seem to be realizing, finally, that consumers don’t want to be the “product”. After Apple changed the rules last year to require businesses to get permission to track users’ behavior and share their information, things changed. The biggies – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are estimating that they will lose $18 billion in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Equifax breach a few years ago? Almost 150 million people were affected. Now its competitor is under the microscope. The class action microscope. A class action has been filed that says that Experian did little to prevent account takeovers by bad guys. The suit, quoting Brian Krebs’ blog (yes, really), says that hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have noticed something recently from some members of the CMMC consulting community. Create fear. Statements like CMMC will be in contracts in May of next year and if you are not CMMC compliant you will not be able to get DoD contracts are in their sales pieces. Here is the reality. CMMC is really […]
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