The cloud is not magic. Nor does it fix all vulnerabilities. Cases in point. Two security vendors are accusing Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers’ data at risk. The vendors, Orca Security and Tenable, are not bit players with a grudge, so you have to, at least, listen to them. According to the source: In a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess HHS wants to be cool, so rather than having a press conference where people can ask embarrassing questions, they are going to release the proposed changes via a prerecorded video – sometime this summer. These new rules will apply to covered entities (like doctors) and business associates (like IT providers). Part of what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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