Fitch Ratings, one of the big creditworthiness ratings firms for businesses, published an alert today regarding the impact of cyberattacks on an organization’s creditworthiness. Their ratings affect an organization’s ability to borrow money because they are worried that unexpected events like cyberattacks could pose financial and operating risks that ultimately affect an organization’s ability to […]
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CCPA went into effect just over a year ago. Now we have some history on it. DataGrail is a vendor that helps companies like OVERSTOCK and OKTA respond to those CCPA requests. They have fulfilled millions of “data subject requests” for their clients. Here is what they found. 46% of the requests were to tell […]
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SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
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Okay, let me just say this at the beginning. This post is opinion. There is certainly factual information (or the closest to fact that we have), but in the end, this is just my opinion. Currently, most cyber breaches are not reported. Even when breaches are reported, they are often missing key information, hard to […]
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While 3G and 4G cell tech have their own well known security issues, so does 5G, including the recently announced 5G network slicing security issues (see here). But this is probably not the big concern for 5G security. The hype around 5G is that we can use it for everything and anything. And we probably […]
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That is a great name and it well describes what we are dealing with. The Solarwinds attack worked because it took advantage of a supply chain that no one understands; not even the people within it. Think back to Equifax. That happened because they did not understand a piece of software, which was vulnerable, was […]
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