Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We hear stories about the time it takes to weaponize security patches. This test, by Orca Security, tested a different problem. They wanted to know how long it takes hackers to discover secrets that you leave exposed in your cloud environment. They tested a variety of resources from Github to AWS. The good news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The short answer to this is yes. Why? Because no one is managing your employees’ home networks. We have seen networks where the firewall has not been patched for years. We have also seen home networks with no firewalls at all. Doesn’t your ISP provide you with a firewall? The answer is that they may. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Remind Folks that Money Stored in Fintech Platforms Like eBay are at Risk US consumers have billions of dollars stored on platforms like eBay, Venmo and a number of others. The feds want to remind you that if you do that, you are “self insuring”, meaning that maybe the platform will return your money […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just a few years ago all we worried about was hackers breaking into our servers in the computer room in the office. We expanded that footprint to include servers located in a data center space that we rented (also called a colo). Those were still servers that we owned. And patched – hopefully. Then we […]
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