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. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Friday Title industry software and consulting provider was hit by a ransomware attack. Cloudstar operates 6 data centers and supports over 40,000 customer users. Now those customers are wondering what are they going to do. Cloudstar users who close real estate sales are dependent on Cloudstar’s systems being up. Cloudstar has been down since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was California (version 1 and version 2); then it was Virginia. Now it is Colorado. IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE. California’s CCPA covered human resources data somewhat. CPRA covers it completely and will require HR departments to create programs to protect HR data. This includes notices at the time data is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The last presidential administration went hard after China – applying sanction after sanction, but with minimal success. They also seemed to give Russia a free pass. Many of the very public recent hacks are being attributed to Russia, including SolarWinds and Kaseya. When Biden met with Putin in Helsinki last month, the two agreed to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In light of the recent series of supply chain attacks (actually going back to 2011 at least), speed is crucial. SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, Kayesa and others. This weekend’s attack against MSP software provider Kaysera is a perfect example of why speed is so important. Many small and medium sized companies are dependent on managed service […]
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