The Department of Defense is probably the largest software development (and hardware development) organization in world but unlike say Microsoft or Cisco, almost all of the development is performed by third parties – the so called defense industrial base or DIB. It is also likely the number one target of nation state hackers since a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N 50 Very Data Hungry CEOs (Out of About 30 Million) Try to Fool Congress into Letting Them Abuse Your Data A group of big data CEOs wrote a letter to Congressional leaders requesting a Federal privacy law which would usurp the state’s rights to protect their consumers as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo “Crapware” Allows Attacker to Compromise Any PC in 600 Seconds I am not going to get on my soapbox about why you should not buy a PC built by the Chinese government because I know people love their old IBM Thinkpads, but handle this issue no matter what. Apparently the Lenovo “Solutions” Center has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was talking to an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) last week and he told me that romance scams (where a scam artist cons usually older people out of their life’s savings pretending to be romantically interested in the victim) is the second largest cyber attack reported to the Feds. Given the announcement below, I guess […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember That Vague Client Alert Earlier This Week? For those of you who are clients, you received an out of cycle client alert on Tuesday (they usually come out on Wednesday) providing a copy of the Homeland Security Alert on the Sodinokibi ransomware going after Managed Service Providers or MSPs. It now appears that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After a horrifying independent review of the Navy’s current cybersecurity posture, the Navy asked Congress to approve a new position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy to handle cyber. This comes after the Navy eliminated the role of CIO last year. Congress turned them down, so now they are going around Congress to create a […]
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