The company Blackbaud helps companies in a variety industries manage their customer relationships. Their services include fundraising and relationship management, customer engagement, financial management and related services. The customers span many industries including arts and culture, faith based organizations, non-profit foundations, healthcare organizations, higher education, change agents and even commercial corporations. Companies can also install […]
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Pioneer Kitten Sells Compromised Corporate Credentials Pioneer Kitten, an Advanced Persistent Threat group backed by Iran, is compromising corporate systems and then selling those credentials to the highest bidder. Like all large organizations, they want to diversify from just ransomware and stealing credit cards. Now they have a new and apparently very lucrative revenue stream. […]
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I talk a lot about the insider threat problem because it is prevalent and hard to stop. Cisco learned about that the hard way. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh resigned from Cisco in April 2018. OK, good, time to move on. FIVE MONTHS LATER, he accessed Cisco’s infrastructure at Amazon and deployed code that shut down 16,000 […]
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Centurylink Routing Issues Lead to Massive Internet Outage Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, Centurylink had a bit of a problem, either taking down or severely impacting web site such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Steam, Twitter and many more. Just because a system was designed to stay operating in case of a nuclear attack does not mean that […]
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Gartner defines Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as those systems “that are engineered to orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking, and analytics to interact with the physical world, including humans”. CPSs include many IoT, IIoT, critical infrastructure such as electric and water and healthcare systems, among others. Gartner predicts that the LIABILITY from cyber incidents will fall DIRECTLY […]
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This is one of a series of user tips for protecting your privacy and security. Windows 10 has a feature that allows apps to run in the background. Is this a problem? Well, not in theory, but that is the problem. Theories are just that – our best guess at the moment. If you allow […]
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