Security firm Black Kite says that 20 percent of America’s largest 100 defense contractors are highly susceptible to a ransomware attack. Why do they say this? Nearly 43% of federal defense contractors have out-of-date systems, giving them a D+ rating for patch management. 42% of contractors have had at least one credential compromised in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Having Some Success In Going After Hackers The DoJ announced the arrest of a Ukrainian who is accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang. They also seized $6 million in cryptocurrency. The Ukrainian was arrested in Poland (crooks are not smart. If you are in the crosshairs of U.S. law […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Fighting a Mastodon Donald Trump’s not-yet-launched social media site, Truth, is already fighting a potential lawsuit. Although Trump has not said so, tech folks who have seen the site say that it is based on the open source social media code base called Mastodon. The license that comes with Mastodon requires that users […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are targeting the cloud. Why? To paraphrase Willie Sutton, because that is where the data is. Historically, penetration testers gain access to network devices through the “perimeter defense” and then they move around (the so-called east-west movement) trying to get access to data, wherever it lives inside the network perimeter. But in the cloud, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]State Acknowledges Data Breach After 10 Months I guess better late than never. Finally, the State of Illinois is admitting to a data breach, sort of. Here is what they are now saying. Check the dates below. Notice who was among the last to know – the victims. Can the state be fined for breaking […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A hacker claims to have breached the Argentinian government’s network and stolen ID card details for every person in the country. The data is now being sold on the underground. The agency that holds the data, RENAPER or Registro Nacional de las Personas, is translated as the National Registry of Persons. The agency is tasked with […]
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