Security company Imperva says that almost all companies have internal databases with known vulnerabilities. The average vulnerable database has 26 publicly disclosed flaws. More than half of them are rated Critical or high severity. They collected this data over the past FIVE YEARS. While being internal does make it slightly harder for the hackers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why care? Hackers often lurk inside networks for weeks or months. During this time they gather a lot of information about how the network works, what it looks like and even how it is secured. With people working from home, often on poorly maintained — scratch that — unmaintained networks, that job just became a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]California AG Rob Bonta has been enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act for over a year now and we are learning what he doesn’t like. One bit of good news that we learned is that notices of violations that he sends out triggers a 30 day cure period and that seems to be working. He […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Third Party Risk – You Can Ignore it, But It Won’t Ignore You DataBreaches.net is reporting that a hacker claimed to have hacked an HVAC vendor and remotely accessed systems at the vendor’s customers. One of those customers is reported to be Boston Children’s Hospital. The HVAC vendor is reported to be ENE Systems in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]President Biden staged a big photo op yesterday at the White House to discuss how to improve cybersecurity. As we all know, those kind of meetings, no matter which party is in the Big House, are not actually done to accomplish things, they are for show. So what came out of this dog and pony […]
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