Many Cyberspace Solarium Commission Recommendations Likely to Become Law The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was a blue ribbon commission that made recommendations to Congress earlier this year on improving government cybersecurity. It appears that many of their recommendations are being added to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is “must pass” bill to fund the military. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You know that if publications like Forbes are running pieces on preparing for ransomware attacks that things must be getting bad. The Forbes piece, written by former Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity at DHS Mark Weatherford is good, but it leaves out a few things (I am guessing that Forbes gave Mark a word limit). We […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if ransomware wasn’t bad enough in the past. As if ransomware 2.0 didn’t make you lose sleep. If you thought that the pandemic was slowing down cyberattacks. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. We are seeing new ransomware strains pop up at an alarming rate. In just the past couple of months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So you thought only companies like Microsoft and Google had terms of service. Apparently that is not the case. I keep talking about the horror that ransomware 2.0 is with hackers stealing the data before they encrypt it and threatening to publish the data if you don’t pay. That means backups alone are not sufficient […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking is today’s preferred method of espionage. It is easier and far less risky than the old school version of putting a person in the organization and risking their life. So what is in the news recently. First, Russian hackers at the FSB, sort of like our FBI – sort of. They are mainly responsible […]
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