Beazley is one of the largest cyber risk insurance providers in the country and publishes periodic reports on claims that they see. Here is a summary of what they saw. Ransomware evolved during 2020, reaching new levels of complexity. Rather than getting an employee to click on something, they hack the network, install malware that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The average car or light truck has somewhere between 50 and 200 computers in it, depending on the model. Those computers both create data and consume data. Sometimes that fact can be quite useful. In 2017 the body of a mechanic, Ronald French, was found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. For more than […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the beginning of the pandemic (can you remember that far back), Teams had about 32 million daily users and was trying to compete with Slack. As of December, Teams had an estimated 115 million daily users. Teams is the defacto communications and collaboration app for anyone using Office or Microsoft 365. As of December, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Of course your first answer is no. Internal systems are only visible internally. But you made changes in a hurry to deal with Covid. Here is the story of one researcher. He is the head of hackers at an ethical hacking firm, Intigriti. Companies use software like JIRA and Asana to create tickets for all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law enforcement agencies around the world have been whining about the “going dark” problem at least since the early 1990s when they tried really hard to put Phil Zimmerman in jail for creating encryption that mere mortals could use. There is no question that bad folks use encryption to hide stuff, but good folks also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well if that isn’t depressing …. Experts warn that medical-device security is a chronic problem, now exacerbated by COVID-era healthcare challenges. Hospitals have been forced to prioritize budgets and staffing to focus on lifesaving care – meaning that IT security often takes a back seat. Adding insult to injury, hackers are aware of this, and […]
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