According to one survey, 92% of companies are concerned about the new rights that consumers have under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), with just over half saying that this is the hardest part of complying. Of course, no one is thinking about what happens after a breach, but prior to a breach, this is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Covid-19 Driven Online Shopping Encouraging More Skimming Attacks Since crooks go where the money is and since we are all doing a lot online shopping during the shelter in place directives, the crooks put two and two together to come up with an attack strategy. Malwarebytes says that they are seeing a 26% increase in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is really a ‘dogpile’ event. As Zoom usage has grown from 10 million users a day in January to 200 million users a day now, they are just trying to keep the wheels on the bus. And everyone says that they found some new problem. In fairness, they didn’t seem to be as security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today is patch Tuesday. A group of major software vendors released 567 patches. Microsoft released patches for 113 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches for 405 vulnerabilities. SAP, Intel, Adobe and VMWare accounted for another 49. If you read last week’s post on the 24/72 metric, this means that you have to apply 500+ patches in less […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Full disclosure: it will be obvious which side of the conversation I am on pretty quickly. The FBI has been trying to ban end to end encryption – any encryption that they can’t break at will – for decades now. They charged Phil Zimmerman with crimes and almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Once a new bug is publicly announced, it takes, on average, seven days for bad guys to figure out how to weaponize it. Experts say that this means that you need to harden your systems against that new attack within 72 hours. That is not very long, even for the best of operations. How long […]
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