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Would You Know if the Chinese Were Inside Your Org? The Repubs Didn’t!

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft warned the GOP in July 2024, just before the convention, that the Chinese had been roaming around in their emails for months. If hackers use a light touch – make sure that they don’t flag emails as read when YOU haven’t read them, don’t delete any of […]

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Security News Bites for February 21, 2025

Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]

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Google Replaces Cookies with Fingerprints for Even Less Privacy

Google has been warning everyone that cookies as a tracking mechanism were going away for a couple of years now. This is not because Google found a soul but rather because Google knows that browsers and users can block or trash cookies making them ineffective as a way to track where you go. In addition, […]

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17 Hours: Time Between Hacked and Extorted

That is a scary statistic. It used to be that hackers lurked inside your systems for days, weeks and even months conducting surveillance. This increased the chance of detecting them before they did damage. Damage like we are seeing with newspaper conglomerate Lee Enterprises, publisher of 72 newspapers and 350 specialty publications. Lee has been […]

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Security News Bites for February 14, 2025

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.Gov Website The web site pulls from a database that anyone can edit. The ultimate definition of full transparency, I guess. It is also not hosted on a government server. Credit: 404 Media VP Calls for Less AI Regulation at Summit The Veep spoke at the Paris AI Action […]

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Coast Guard Not Ready to Protect Maritime Cybersecurity

Yet another challenge for the new administration. In the face of escalating cyber threats against the US maritime transportation system, the Coast Guard, which is responsible for maritime cybersecurity, doesn’t have a plan. The GAO released a report on a year long study that says, basically, not ready for prime time. The Russians, Chinese and […]

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