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Security News for the Week Ending September 27, 2019

Did Apple ‘Play’ President Trump? Apple says that it has received a waiver from import tariffs on Chinese parts for the Mac Pro.  Why, after President Trump said he wouldn’t do that?  Apple’s PR machine made it look like the Mac Pro was now going to be made in Texas after they floated a rumor […]

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Vendor. Cyber. Risk. Management!

I don’t know how to say this any more clearly, but vendors represent a huge risk to every organization. Lion Air, the Indonesian parent of Malindo Air and other subsidiaries that were breached, confirmed the breach last week. Why did they confirm it?  Perhaps they were being good corporate citizens.  An alternative explanation is that […]

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Security news for the Week Ending September 20, 2019

A New Trend?  Insurers Offering Consumers Ransomware Coverage In what may be a new trend, Mercury Insurance is now offering individuals $50,000 of ransomware insurance in case your cat videos get encrypted.  The good news is that the insurance may help you get your data back in case of an attack.  The bad news is […]

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DoD Releases Draft CMMC Guidelines

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 […]

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