UK Proposes Weak Security Law for IoT Devices; Calls it Strong The UK is proposing a law similiar to California’s existing IoT law and calls it strong security. What makes it strong is that they call it strong, maybe? The bill requires that default passwords on IoT devices be unique (likely part of the serial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Breaches Gone Wild – Very Wild Since EU’s GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018 – about 18 months ago – 160,000 Breaches have been reported to EU authorities. A calculator will tell you that means that people are reporting between 250 and 300 security incidents A DAY! If you think that magically, 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orphaned Data in the Cloud Researchers at security firm vpnMentor found an unsecured S3 bucket with passport, tax forms, background checks, job applications and other sensitive data for thousands of employees of British consultancies. Many of the firms involved are no longer in business. The researchers reported this to Amazon and the UK’s Computer Emergency […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Albany Int’l Airport Hit By Ransomware via MSP In what is becoming an all too common story, the Managed Service Provider that supported Albany, NY’s airport, Logical Net of Schenectady, NY, was hacked and from there, the hackers were able to connect to the airports administrative network and infect it with REvil ransomware, the same […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple’s Ad Tracking Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market Two years ago Apple decided that since they don’t earn a lot of revenue from ads and Google, their competitor in the phone business, does, wouldn’t it be great to do something to hurt them. Oh, yeah, we can pretend the real reason we are doing it […]
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