US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DNS, that service that converts www.Foxnews.com (or whatever) to 23.39.41.42 is one of the last bits of the Internet that is not encrypted. Or at least it was. Google and others have developed two different solutions to encrypt DNS – DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. These are variations of each other and I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so Teams is not a verb. But neither was Google, as in go Google it. Hackers have figured out that as people are just learning about collaboration software like Teams and Slack, there is a lot of squishiness around the edges. Say you are part of a Teams group that includes employees, contractors and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This one is gonna get a little geeky, so if that is not your cup of tea, but can just skip this post knowing that the feds did not shut down cell service to keep the crowd from communicating; the crowd did it to itself. Many people reported that they had no cell service as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said last week, while the bombing is a horrible event, it does point out how brittle our telecommunications world is. That being said, for most companies, the rest of the IT infrastructure is probably more brittle. Companies should use this as an opportunity to review their situation and see if they can make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The terrible events in Nashville will take a long time to recover from. The bomb, likely intentionally, severely damaged an AT&T “wire center” near downtown, shutting off AT&T service for millions of customers. This included some 911 call centers, cell phone users, land line customers, Internet service and even cable TV. Those 911 call centers […]
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