Following in the footsteps of the cybersecurity Executive Order, President Biden issued a National Security Memorandum last week on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems – that is the computers that control our critical infrastructure. Like the EO, this NSM has specific details. The government has created a Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to […]
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Or at least try! The NSO Group is the Israeli company that sells spyware to governments. And which evidence suggests also sells to all forms of unsavory characters, although they deny that. Evidence also says that they target journalists, activists, business executives and lawyers around the world. But they come from the Werner Von Braun […]
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The average time to weaponize a new bug is seven days. that means that you have about half that time to harden your system to that attack. Almost no one regularly patches serious bugs that quickly. In 2019 Threatpost said that it took organizations 102 days to patch (see link above). That was in 2019. […]
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Law firms are a target for hackers. After all, what does a law firm do? They know where the proverbial bodies are buried. Case in point. Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, law firm to companies like Apple, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Ford, Honda, IBM, Toyota and many others, suffered a breach. They discovered the breach in February. […]
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On Friday Title industry software and consulting provider was hit by a ransomware attack. Cloudstar operates 6 data centers and supports over 40,000 customer users. Now those customers are wondering what are they going to do. Cloudstar users who close real estate sales are dependent on Cloudstar’s systems being up. Cloudstar has been down since […]
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First it was California (version 1 and version 2); then it was Virginia. Now it is Colorado. IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE. California’s CCPA covered human resources data somewhat. CPRA covers it completely and will require HR departments to create programs to protect HR data. This includes notices at the time data is […]
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