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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 15, 2024

No Honor Among Crooks – Darknet Site Extorts Vendors, Buyers I guess we should not be surprised, but darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has posted a threat on its homepage that if its vendors and buyers don’t pay an extortion of between $100 and $20,000, they will publish all of their transaction and chat records. […]

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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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Security News for the Week Ending March 1, 2024

Five Eyes Agencies: SolarWinds Hackers Adopting New Tactics As businesses move to the cloud, hackers are adopting new techniques since Software as a Service providers are much better at patching than most companies are. Instead, the Russian hackers are stealing authentication tokens and using them to get access to the cloud, including creating new accounts […]

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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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