Incident and Ransomware Reporting Requirement in Just Passed Spending Bill President Biden signed a bill that requires critical infrastructure operators to report significant cyber incidents to CISA within 72 hours after they reasonably believe an incident has occurred and within 24 hours of making a ransomware payment. The ransomware reporting requirement applies even if it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Not Happy About Launch of Twitter-Like Truth Social Apparently not happy is a bit of an understatement. He has a lot to lose if this is not successful. As part of the SPAC deal with Digital World, he has a lot of shares. If the stock, which is still going up slowly, tanks, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This should make you feel better. Especially under the current situation. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, an extremely well known and well respected group of security researchers, tested 200,000 network connected infusion pumps used in medical facilities. 75% of the devices tested had security vulnerabilities that would allow hackers to exploit them. The purpose of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Scammers Figure out How to Fake Out Facial Biometrics Multi-factor authentication is not magic. For the most part, it is software. And if software is not well written, it can be fooled. That means that we should not be surprised if scammers try to use deep fakes and other techniques to fool automated facial recognition. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I can’t really blame Apple for this. Their heart was in the right place. Helping people find their lost stuff sounds like a reasonable goal. The problem is that no good deed ever goes unpunished. Initially, people bought an AirTag and then either slipped it into someone’s coat pocket or attach it to the back […]
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