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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply chain attacks are attacks on the software (and hardware) that goes into the software (and hardware) that you buy. We keep seeing attacks that compromise that underlying software. Earlier this year, it was Ripple20 that affected millions of IoT devices. Many of those devices will likely never be patched and will be vulnerable forever. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes we focus on the details of cybersecurity protections. And ignore the core issues. In a lot of cases, when companies office in multi-tenant office buildings, the Internet comes into a shared area of the building that is not part of the company’s leased space. This is called a Dmarc for point of demarcation. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a follow up to yesterday’s newsletter alert and sorry, it is a bit technical, but I will try to make it as untechnical as possible. Up to a few years ago, if you ran a website, you could buy an HTTPS (also known as a TLS or SSL) certificate that didn’t expire for […]
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