Work from Home Security Considerations As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you not familiar with the False Claims Act or FCA, it is a Civil War Era law that the government uses to recover billions of dollars every year from contractors who lie to Uncle about something. In our case, it is going to be lying about their cybersecurity practices. In 2021 the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an actual event, not a drill. SDIS 67 / Laurent Schoenferber SDIX 67 / Laurent Schoenferber The date is March 10,2021. The time is 12:40 AM. The location is an OVH data center on the west bank of the Rhine, where France borders Germany. The data center, a small one by today’s standards, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Downloads Soar After Signalgate While, possibly, the use of Signal in Washington may decrease, Signal says the number of downloads it is seeing is double the usual rate. Prior to Signalgate, Signal was already having a banner year, so this just makes it a double banner year. Maybe people think that if Signal is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers replaced the NYU homepage with charts and links to large student datasets. The hacker CLAIMED he redacted personal data but a security expert said “not really”. The charts linked to four different databases that includes personal information on applicants to NYU. The security expert said the hacker did not redact the information correctly and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Humans **ARE** The Weak Link in Security North Korean hackers are tricking their victims into downloading a supposed patch for Zoom by convincing them that they have a meeting with an important venture capitalist and the reason you can’t hear him is a Zoom bug that they have a fix for. Of course, the fix […]
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