The media continues to report on the Microsoft Exchange hack, likely perpetrated by China. Reports are that at least 30,000 Exchange servers in the United States are impacted and some people say that number is likely way underestimated. On top of that, the number of servers worldwide is maybe ten times that number. Given all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month, as Parler was being deplatformed by Amazon, it was hacked and many gigabytes of data were taken and later made public. In what seems like a sequel, right wing free speech social media platform Gab.com was hacked and, again, data was stolen and later published. It is reported that Gab is described as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Working on CMMC-Fedramp ‘Reciprocity’ by Year End CMMC, the DoD’s new cybersecurity standard is designed to measure security practices of companies and the servers in the computer rooms and data centers. But what about the stuff in the cloud. That is covered by another government standard called FedRAMP. But those two standards have different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last October Wilmington Surgical Associates was dealing with a ransomware attack. Allegedly, the Netwalker ransomware group stole 13 gigabytes of data, which in today’s world easily fits on a flash drive, and leaked that data online. The patients of the North Carolina clinic whose data was stolen and leaked are seeking “redress for its unlawful […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been talking a lot about supply chain risk lately and there is a good reason. From open source products with backdoors like Webmin or Rubygems to NotPetya a few years ago which shut down many companies around the world to the recent attacks against SolarWinds or Centreon, supply chain attacks are running rampant. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2018 Bloomberg ran a story that claimed that China had embedded tiny microchips on Supermicro computer server processor boards in 2015. Everyone denied it – Supermicro, the intelligence community (IC), China. Supply chain attacks seem to be everywhere these days and this is another one. I don’t know if it is true, but why […]
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