Well that is a pretty depressing headline, but that is what the statistics say. According to a Sophos study, the average cost of a ransomware attack jumped from $761,000 to $1.85 million over the last year. The average ransomware payment is now $170,000. More worrysome, only 8% of the organizations say that they got all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The most famous supply chain attack of the last few years was the SolarWinds attack. That attack was a home run for the Russians. Other hackers (or maybe the same ones) thought that was a great attack vector. Now it seems to have become quite popular. Then came DevOps tool provider Codecov. Hackers compromised Codecov, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) fined Residential Mortgage Services $1.5 million for not having a compliant cybersecurity program and, even worse, not telling the regulator that they had a breach. DFS said that RMS did not investigate the breach seriously, did not conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and did not notify […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not a Good Week for Social Media Privacy After the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we saw terabytes of conversations and videos and profiles from the alt-right Twitter clone Parler posted online. Last week we saw 500+ million Facebook profiles for sale on the dark web (Facebook says this isn’t a breach) and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While China is a serious threat and the last administration pushed on that hard, that administration ignored Russia. Today the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies issued a joint alert titled Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks. The NSA, FBI and CISA said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is certainly not a comforting thought. Last month the public water supply in a small town in Florida was hacked. Only PURE DUMB LUCK protected those citizens. Did the hacker use exotic unknown vulnerabilities to compromise the system? No. The city didn’t even have a firewall, was using software that was no longer […]
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