There are lots of types of threats to your digital universe. Ransomware. Malicious emails. Infected text messages and many others. But here is one that we have not talked much about, but which has been a real problem and is becoming more of a problem and that is fake updates. We have talked before about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t know whether to think this is abnormal or not. I think it is not. Tim Hortons is fast food chain, based in Canada with about 5,000 restaurants in 15 countries, including the United States. Like many companies, Timmies (yup, that is one of the names for it) has an app. And, like many […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I can tell you from personal experience of our pentesting that this is true. We often find password documents – spreadsheets and text documents, unencrypted and unprotected. This is in spite of the fact that 93% of the respondents require password management training and 63% hold that training more than once a year. 8 percent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Russian troops stole millions of dollars of John Deere farm equipment from an authorized Deere dealer, Agrotek-Invest, in Melitopol, Ukraine, they trailered them to Checknya, about 700 miles away. What the Russians did not know is that (a) the equipment has a GPS in it, so Deere knew exactly where they took it and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In a survey of 400 veteran IT security practitioners, across a wide variety of industries such as healthcare, tech, education and finance, focused on data resilience, 93 percent said they have a ransomware readiness plan, but there are significant knowledge gaps. 26 percent said the cloud is too risky for backup, but only a third […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As part of CIRCIA (Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act) in the just passed omnibus spending bill, CISA is required to stand up a Ransomware Task Force. Jen Easterly, head of CISA, having just won the battle that requires companies to report breaches and ransomware payments to her rather than the FBI (which pissed […]
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