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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The average time to weaponize a new bug is seven days. that means that you have about half that time to harden your system to that attack. Almost no one regularly patches serious bugs that quickly. In 2019 Threatpost said that it took organizations 102 days to patch (see link above). That was in 2019. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms are a target for hackers. After all, what does a law firm do? They know where the proverbial bodies are buried. Case in point. Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, law firm to companies like Apple, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Ford, Honda, IBM, Toyota and many others, suffered a breach. They discovered the breach in February. […]
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