The U.S. government released its widely anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy on Tuesday, pushing mandatory regulation on critical infrastructure vendors and green-lighting a more aggressive ‘hack-back’ approach to dealing with foreign adversaries and ransomware actors. The strategy is just that, a roadmap. While parts of it can be done without Congress’ approval, lots of it require additional authority. […]
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As operating system vendors (Apple and Google) improve their security and make hacking their products more difficult, hackers are looking elsewhere for “ways in”. While users consider their phones a single computer, the reality is that there are whole bunch of computers under the hood. Processors for each radio in the phone such as the […]
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I’ve never been a fan of GoDaddy for a variety of reasons, but now I have a major reason not to like them. In 2020 GoDaddy alerted 28,000 customers that an attacker used their credentials in 2019 to abuse their hosting accounts. That is over 3 years ago and that was the start of a […]
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In 2022 security companies that track these attacks saw a rise in the number and sophistication of attacks on critical infrastructure. They also saw the introduction of a malware toolkit with plugins to attack tens of thousands of control systems across every industry. Responders discovered, not surprisingly, that the vast majority (more than 75%) of […]
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If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
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That is a big number and even if it is off by say 25% or 30%, that is still huge. Cisco Systems surveyed over a thousand organizations across Australia, India, Japan, Germany, the UK and US. All companies had revenues in excess of $500 million, so you can’t say these are small shops without a […]
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