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2024 May be Worse for Attacks Than 2023

According to Flashpoint, a threat intelligence service, 2023 recorded 6,077 breaches compromising more than 17 billion records. That is a 35 percent increase over 2022. Again, according to Flashpoint, for the first two months of 2024, that number is up 429 percent over the first two months of 2023. The U.S. represented 60 percent of […]

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Feds Say CISA Not Prepared to Defend OT

If that headline doesn’t keep you up at night, I don’t know what will. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says they have have found inefficiencies in CISA’s information sharing practices, in particular with critical infrastructure stakeholders. They also say that CISA is understaffed for handling OT incidents. Just to make sure everyone is on the […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 8, 2024

Hacking and Stealing Your Car From the Outside Through Your Headlight Apparently this is real. Crooks can pop off the headlight trim on some cars and get access to the cables to your “smart” headlights. From there they have access to the data bus called the CAN bus and from there they can unlock and […]

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Another Law Firm Gets Security Religion – AFTER Hackers Stole 325,000 Customer’s Data

The Houser LLP law firm specializes in taking care of high-profile financial institutions. Last May they were hacked. Ten months later they are finally notifying those high profile customers. They eventually were forced to disclose the breach to the Maine AG (among others). They said files were encrypted (AKA ransomware) and data was stolen. Data […]

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The Business Side of China’s Hacking Industry

A large and revealing leak from China was released earlier this month. It shows how much the hacking world in China has turned into a business. The company, i-SOON, was the victim of a leak. So sad! Not! The hacker posted a collection of 500 internal documents to GitHub. The documents reveal details of China’s […]

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They’re Baaaack! LockBit, That Is. And they are Ticked Off

The FBI touted just last week that they had taken down LockBit and replaced the servers with ones that offered free decryption keys and sunshine for all. It didn’t last long. The Russia-based hackers have reconstituted themselves and have new servers. It is true that the FBI and Europol and others did take down their […]

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