Not a Good Week for Social Media Privacy After the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we saw terabytes of conversations and videos and profiles from the alt-right Twitter clone Parler posted online. Last week we saw 500+ million Facebook profiles for sale on the dark web (Facebook says this isn’t a breach) and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While China is a serious threat and the last administration pushed on that hard, that administration ignored Russia. Today the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies issued a joint alert titled Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks. The NSA, FBI and CISA said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is certainly not a comforting thought. Last month the public water supply in a small town in Florida was hacked. Only PURE DUMB LUCK protected those citizens. Did the hacker use exotic unknown vulnerabilities to compromise the system? No. The city didn’t even have a firewall, was using software that was no longer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ubiquiti All But Confirms Breach Story As the stories about Ubiquiti’s really bad attempts to save their reputation after a breach earlier this year swirled, they were completely silent, other than a very short statement. Now they have posted a statement on their user forum that says that they have no evidence that customer information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fitch Ratings, one of the big creditworthiness ratings firms for businesses, published an alert today regarding the impact of cyberattacks on an organization’s creditworthiness. Their ratings affect an organization’s ability to borrow money because they are worried that unexpected events like cyberattacks could pose financial and operating risks that ultimately affect an organization’s ability to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCPA went into effect just over a year ago. Now we have some history on it. DataGrail is a vendor that helps companies like OVERSTOCK and OKTA respond to those CCPA requests. They have fulfilled millions of “data subject requests” for their clients. Here is what they found. 46% of the requests were to tell […]
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