Turns out that VxWorks is an extremely popular “real time” operating system or RTOS. RTOSes are used in devices that need to be able to respond to real time events, unlike, say Windows, Linux or MacOS. VxWorks can make sure that say, if an MRI machine is zapping someone with energy in order to create […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was talking to an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) last week and he told me that romance scams (where a scam artist cons usually older people out of their life’s savings pretending to be romantically interested in the victim) is the second largest cyber attack reported to the Feds. Given the announcement below, I guess […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember That Vague Client Alert Earlier This Week? For those of you who are clients, you received an out of cycle client alert on Tuesday (they usually come out on Wednesday) providing a copy of the Homeland Security Alert on the Sodinokibi ransomware going after Managed Service Providers or MSPs. It now appears that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I talk about the importance of vendor cyber risk management programs all the time. Vendors have been at the root of many very major breaches such as Target and Home Depot and more recently Capital One. Here are some thoughts around vendor cyber risk management. The vendor is big and publicly traded so surely they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After a horrifying independent review of the Navy’s current cybersecurity posture, the Navy asked Congress to approve a new position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy to handle cyber. This comes after the Navy eliminated the role of CIO last year. Congress turned them down, so now they are going around Congress to create a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember, this only counts reported breaches. Marriott, for example, didn’t detect its breach for FOUR YEARS. And tens of thousands of breaches likely go both undetected and unreported. The midyear data breach review by Risk Based Security said there were 3,816 breaches REPORTED in the first half of 2019, up 54% from the first half […]
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