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Security News Update for Week Ending June 14, 2024

Trump Tells Crypto Execs He Won’t Regulate Crypto if Re-elected Trump raised $12 million from crypto execs after he told them that if he is re-elected he would be the crypto-president and un/not regulate crypto. Telling people what they want to hear is always easy for politicians. He said that crypto is very important and […]

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Microsoft Didn’t Patch Bug for Years, Leaving Gov Systems Exposed Because It Could Hurt Sales

I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending June 7, 2024

Trump Decides to Join TikTok Instead of Banning It I know that politicians are hypocritical; it just comes with the game. When Trump was president, he attempted to ban TikTok via an executive order that he signed because it was a national security risk. This year Congress passed a law that would ban TikTok as […]

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US Water, Other Utilities Under Attack

Unfortunately, other than the very large water and other utilities, most utilities do not have the money, manpower or desire to secure their networks. We continue to hear more stories of successful attacks. In April a Russia-linked hacking group, the Cyber Army of Russia, claimed responsibility for an attack on a water and wastewater system […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending May 24, 2024

DocuFakes on the Rise Hackers have figured out that anything that you do on autopilot is fertile ground for using to hack you. Case in point is Docusign. For some people, they sign so many docusign documents that they operate on autopilot when they see one. The hackers have really good templates, so that helps. […]

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Are We About to See Another Log4j?

This one is called LINGUISTIC LUMBERJACK. Fluent Bit is a very widely used open source logging package in the cloud. It is used by all major cloud providers. It has been downloaded over 3 billion times just in 2022. Fluent Bit is described as “a lightweight, open-source data collector and processor” which collecting and processing […]

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