Arizona’s Republican led state Senate hired Cyber Ninjas to review the election results for Maricopa County. Unfortunately, these ninjas had no experience doing election audits and, apparently, not much experience doing any kind of forensic investigating. They did not maintain custody of the equipment, they did not maintain surveillance on the equipment and they allowed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Old Scams Never Die, They Just Get a Fresh Coat of Paint Scammers have been posing, according to a warning by DHS, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in San Antonio. The scammers call the mark, pretending to be HSI and tell them there is a problem with their passport […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Washington Post had an eye opening story on just how bad things are when it comes to responding to cyber attacks. Based on a congressional review by the House Oversight Office of three very major cyber attacks (CNA, Colonial and JBS), we have some insight into why incident response preparation is so important. #1 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Having Some Success In Going After Hackers The DoJ announced the arrest of a Ukrainian who is accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang. They also seized $6 million in cryptocurrency. The Ukrainian was arrested in Poland (crooks are not smart. If you are in the crosshairs of U.S. law […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) introduced the Ransomware and Financial Stability Act (HR 5936) this week which would make it illegal for financial institutions to pay ransoms over $100,000 without first getting the government’s permission. McHenry, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, introduced the bill yesterday. He said that ransomware payments in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China’s residents are not used to online privacy – from one of the world’s most repressive and invasive regimes, but there is now an online privacy law called PIPL (Personal Information Protection Law). It went into effect on November 1 and it will change how companies do business in China – but it won’t change […]
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