In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While many executive orders are a waste of good space in the Federal Register, so far executive branch agencies seem to be taking the Executive Order on Improving Cybersecurity seriously. The most recent result is that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered federal agencies to start documenting software that is identified as critical. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Answer: More and more of the time! If you have to comply with one of the growing number of state and country privacy laws, then a deletion request is much more than a request or hitting the delete key. While some of the details of each state’s law is different, the basics are the same. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you even know what this means? Actually, it means different things to different people, but they are all related. The first meaning is how long does it take a hacker to identify vulnerable systems after a vulnerability is disclosed? For example, when Microsoft disclosed the Windows Print Spooler attack, how long before hackers start […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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