Security company Imperva says that almost all companies have internal databases with known vulnerabilities. The average vulnerable database has 26 publicly disclosed flaws. More than half of them are rated Critical or high severity. They collected this data over the past FIVE YEARS. While being internal does make it slightly harder for the hackers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why care? Hackers often lurk inside networks for weeks or months. During this time they gather a lot of information about how the network works, what it looks like and even how it is secured. With people working from home, often on poorly maintained — scratch that — unmaintained networks, that job just became a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While many executive orders are a waste of good space in the Federal Register, so far executive branch agencies seem to be taking the Executive Order on Improving Cybersecurity seriously. The most recent result is that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered federal agencies to start documenting software that is identified as critical. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or at least try! The NSO Group is the Israeli company that sells spyware to governments. And which evidence suggests also sells to all forms of unsavory characters, although they deny that. Evidence also says that they target journalists, activists, business executives and lawyers around the world. But they come from the Werner Von Braun […]
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