NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA’s SECURE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ATTESTATION FORM rule comes into effect next week. It requires that companies that produce software and sell it to the government adhere to key security practices. It also requires that those developers attest to their practices. In writing. Signed by an executive of the company. It applies to companies that do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unfortunately, other than the very large water and other utilities, most utilities do not have the money, manpower or desire to secure their networks. We continue to hear more stories of successful attacks. In April a Russia-linked hacking group, the Cyber Army of Russia, claimed responsibility for an attack on a water and wastewater system […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senator Ron Wyden, who is possibly the biggest advocate on Capitol Hill for cybersecurity and privacy, laid into UnitedHealth Group’s CEO for their cybersecurity practices. Their practices led to a breach that affected possibly one third of the adults in the US who have health insurance. Senator Wyden also asked the FTC and SEC to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While it seems that some companies continue to be clueless and others get fined (and sued) for delaying reporting breaches, the window (and door) is closing rapidly on that. The SEC says that publicly traded companies have 4 days after determining that a breach is material to file an 8-K to notify investors. DoD contractors […]
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