I bet there is a large chunk of the folks reading this that will say that we don’t use open source software. And then there is another large chunk that says we’re good; all up to date. My guess is that both of these statements are wrong. Synopsys did a study and found these two […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]President Trump has been trying to get other countries to follow his thoughts on punishing China by banning Huawei from participating in their 5G networks with almost no one following his wishes. The UK, however, is using a different approach. Tobias Ellwood, a member of the UK Parliament and the Chairman of the Defence Committee […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Three separate ransomware stories – all against healthcare organizations, even though SOME hackers SAID they weren’t going to hack healthcare. Of course, what makes you think you can trust folks who break the law for a living. #1 – Largest Private Hospital Company in Europe Hit By Ransomware Fresenius, is Europe’s largest hospital operator and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting chart from Gartner: What are legal and compliance folks worried about in the era of Covid-19? Increased cyber risk. “Remote working has been hastily adopted by suppliers to keep their business running, so it’s unlikely every organization or employee is following best practices,” said Vidhya Balasubramanian, managing vice president in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As software makers start to take security more seriously, hackers are becoming more creative. When Apple and Microsoft started doing a better job of finding and patching bugs in their operating systems more quickly, hackers started looking at other applications installed on users’ computers. As the makers of the other software installed on computers started […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that when the phone rang, it was someone with an African accent telling you that he was from Windows technical support calling you because your computer was infected. You hung up. Scammers have gotten much smarter. Unfortunately. Here are two recent examples. This guy got taken for $10,000. Mitch (him, not […]
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