While this is probably not news if you were affected, earlier today Amazon had a bit of a problem. Just in time for the Christmas rush, Amazon warehouse workers had a bit of a holiday. Workers reported in social media that warehouses are at a standstill, leaving workers without much to do besides singing karaoke. […]
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Last week we got a call from one of our customers, a bit frantic (I am not going to say anything about who they are), asking for an assessment about whether they had been hacked. After a little investigating, we decided that the answer was no, but so began a story that lasted for four […]
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Security firm Black Kite says that 20 percent of America’s largest 100 defense contractors are highly susceptible to a ransomware attack. Why do they say this? Nearly 43% of federal defense contractors have out-of-date systems, giving them a D+ rating for patch management. 42% of contractors have had at least one credential compromised in the […]
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Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]
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China’s policymaking body, the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (I did not make up this name) approved a plan yesterday for developing home grown science and technology with an eye toward self-sufficiency. According to a press release by the state run news agency, Xi said that while China has made substantial progress in trying to […]
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As part of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), NIST is required to do several things. among those are guides and standards for improving supply chain security and they have already released a number of draft documents related to their tasks. IF you sell to the executive branch, these will become […]
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