Want a .US Domain? Just Lie About It. The .US top level domains are a hotbed for phishing attacks. Apparently, this is due to lax oversight. In theory, the .US is managed by the US government, but the government outsources that to GoDaddy – who doesn’t have a stellar cybersecurity reputation to be polite. See […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oh, Boy, Bad Day at Work – FAA NOTAM Failure Caused by Contractor Deleting Wrong Files The FAA is now saying that the NOTAM failure earlier this month that shut down air traffic for around 90 minutes was caused by human error. A contractor was trying to fix a synchronization problem between the primary and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the beginning of this month Twitter had, reportedly, about 7,500 employees and 5,500 contractors. In an effort to stem the cash flow bleeding, Elon Musk fired about half of the employees and all or most all of the contractors. That means an organization that previously had around 13,000 people was instantly reduced to about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is actually not a unique story; it happens from time to time. Luckily, it doesn’t happen that often, but when it does, OH BOY! Casey Umetso, age 40, was a network administrator for a “prominent Hawaii-based financial services company”, the name of which, for some reason, the DoJ is trying to shield. After being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an interesting story of how law enforcement, completely legally, can obtain data that you thought you deleted. Well, you did delete it, but deleted does not really mean deleted. Earlier this year the FBI was trying to solve a string of seven bank robberies in five states. One of the tools that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sungard Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection – Again Sungard, the king of disaster recovery and business continuity needs to figure out a new business. They previously filed for Chapter 11 in 2019 and shed $800 million in debt, but they have a fundamental problem. As businesses move from private data centers to the cloud […]
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