I talk all the time about third-party or supply chain breaches and there is serious impact to them. Here is one example going on now. Change Health is a healthcare payment facilitator among other services. They are used by doctors, pharmacies and hospitals to get paid. Change is owned by Optum Health which, in turn, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce to Retire After 34 Years Now that is a career in public service. Joyce was the Cyber Director at NSA since 2021 and was at the NSA during the days that it was affectionately called “No Such Agency” for its secretiveness. It comes at a time when cyber threats are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago Suffolk County on Long Island in New York was taken out by a ransomware attack. It took months to get back online. So what did they do wrong? Pretty much everything. First, they had to find a scapegoat, so they fired their IT director. Did he do anything wrong? No. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Caesars Entertainment, which calls itself the U.S.’s largest casino chain, sort of says it paid a ransom to avoid the online leak of customer data stolen in a recent cyberattack. The attack compromised the chain’s loyalty database, which, according to them, includes driver’s license numbers and social security numbers of many customers. Caesar’s 8-K filed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]73 percent of survey respondents (659 board members from companies with over 5,000 employees) fear a material cyberattack on their organization this year, up from 65 percent last year. 59 percent said that generative AI presents a high risk to their organizations because it can be used by hackers to create and deliver malware with […]
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