China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Corona Virus Puts Brakes on 5G Deployment A research reports says that global cloud revenue from the operation of core 5G networks will fall 25% to 30% shy of the $9 billion forecasted for this year. They predict that this will only be a short term problem and that 5G deployment will pick up next […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You probably guessed what #1 and #2 are – the U.S. and China. Any idea with #3 is? If you guessed cybercrime, you would be right. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Global Risks Report 2020” states that cybercrime will be the second most-concerning risk for global commerce over the next decade until 2030. It’s also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Covid-19 Driven Online Shopping Encouraging More Skimming Attacks Since crooks go where the money is and since we are all doing a lot online shopping during the shelter in place directives, the crooks put two and two together to come up with an attack strategy. Malwarebytes says that they are seeing a 26% increase in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is really a ‘dogpile’ event. As Zoom usage has grown from 10 million users a day in January to 200 million users a day now, they are just trying to keep the wheels on the bus. And everyone says that they found some new problem. In fairness, they didn’t seem to be as security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today is patch Tuesday. A group of major software vendors released 567 patches. Microsoft released patches for 113 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches for 405 vulnerabilities. SAP, Intel, Adobe and VMWare accounted for another 49. If you read last week’s post on the 24/72 metric, this means that you have to apply 500+ patches in less […]
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