Part Time Hackers Get Rich A business email compromise hacking group, based in Israel, is so good that it only needs to work part time. Only targeting large companies and their executives, the average haul for this team is $712,000. The overall average from BEC attacks is only $65,000. Learn their success strategy and avoid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]RICO is a dragnet law which can subject people and companies to very serious penalties and jail time. This is an extension of the negligence class-actions that use the principles of the Caremark Standard to go after companies with inadequate cybersecurity programs. This is a shift away from the lawsuits the claim that “my social […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Adds Dark Web Monitoring to GMail Users A feature that used to be available to paid Google One subscribers will soon be available to all GMail users. Dark web monitoring tells you if your GMail email address is found on the dark web (hint: almost all of them are due to thousands of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter wants to offer a whole bunch of services under one roof, so expect more of these. But, there are two strategies – best of breed and one throat to choke. Twitter is, apparently, going after the one throat to choke model. In the best of breed model, you pick the best tools you can […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Most people know about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, funded, in part, by a massive infusion of cash from Microsoft. People also are aware of the privacy concerns of GPT-type tools. In many cases, the damage is not intentional, but accidental. People submitting sensitive queries without thinking about it. Also, as more and more software incorporates GPT-tools under […]
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