The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or at least standardized policy language on the subject. Cyber insurance policies have always had language excluding “hostile and warlike actions”, whatever the hell that means. What it means is full employment for lawyers. And a long time before you get paid. The Lloyd’s Market Association, the syndicate that drives Lloyd’s backed policies, has created […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is probably not news if you were affected, earlier today Amazon had a bit of a problem. Just in time for the Christmas rush, Amazon warehouse workers had a bit of a holiday. Workers reported in social media that warehouses are at a standstill, leaving workers without much to do besides singing karaoke. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week we got a call from one of our customers, a bit frantic (I am not going to say anything about who they are), asking for an assessment about whether they had been hacked. After a little investigating, we decided that the answer was no, but so began a story that lasted for four […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security firm Black Kite says that 20 percent of America’s largest 100 defense contractors are highly susceptible to a ransomware attack. Why do they say this? Nearly 43% of federal defense contractors have out-of-date systems, giving them a D+ rating for patch management. 42% of contractors have had at least one credential compromised in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]
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