In the face of the IRS losing billions of your tax dollars every year, they instituted a plan last year to actually verify the identity of people who are logging on the the IRS’s digital websites. What a novel concept. Would you do business with a bank that would let anyone walk in, say that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Who is Interested in Attacking My Little Website? I have written about this before but it is worth repeating. I have a simple firewall on my blog sites. There is nothing terribly sensitive there; it is not connected to my company’s network, but still I continue to be amazed. Yesterday there were 1175 attacks from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The President’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity (EO 14928) ordered Homeland Security to create a Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB). The CSRB is supposed to be like the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) with some major differences. The CSRB will investigate major cyber isssues while the NTSB investigates transportation accidents. Unlike the NTSB which can take […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more and more communities mandate recycling, there is an ever increasing number of devices being thrown into recycling bins that contain lithium batteries. In September 2016 a four alarm fire broke out at the Shoreway Environmental Center outside of San Francisco. The fire caused $6+ million in damage and caused the plant to shut […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security tool provider Proofpoint released a report to identify the costs and trends associated with insider threats. While the stereotype for insider threat is the malicious insider, that is only one part of the insider threat. Other insider threats include the negligent insider and the compromised insider. The report, conducted by Larry Ponemon’s group, said […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The IRS is changing from using a homegrown userid and password based authentication system to a third party single signon type of system run by ID.ME. Given that the IRS doesn’t have a great track record for security, your first inclination might be “can’t be any worse than what they had before”. The short version […]
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