While the head of cybersecurity at DHS said the details of which states were compromised is classified, she admitted that 21 states were targeted during the 2016 elections and that some of them were penetrated. Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said 2016 was a wakeup call and now it is up to the government(s) to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am always skeptical about these lawsuits. One issue is usually “standing”, but in this case, I don’t think this will be an issue. Often, if the party being sued thinks they are going to lose, they tend to settle, quietly, with no precedent from a court decision. In this case, I predict this one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the leadership at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has changed to a more business friendly leader, the new head of the CFPB, Mick Mulvaney is not going to move forward with a full scale probe of how Equifax failed to protect the information of over a hundred million consumers. The former director, Richard Cordray, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In spite of all of the data breaches that we see on an almost daily basis, we have seen time and again that the courts have dismissed lawsuits for a variety of reasons. In many cases, the reason is called lack of standing. Under U.S. Federal law, standing is based on Article III of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Defense contractors are wrestling with new contracting rules that went into place, sort of, as of December 31, 2017, with the requirement to be in compliance with NIST SP 800-171. NIST SP 800-171 defines over 100 cyber security requirements that defense contractors and sub-contractors must comply with. Prime contractors must ensure that their subs are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]
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