Also get ready to patch your Infiniti, Nissan, Acura, Mercedes, Genesis, Ford, Toyota, Jaguar, Kia, Honda and Land Rover. As car makers attach more bells and whistles to your new car, assume a steady stream of recalls. The problem is that the car makers are not patching older cars, so they will remain vulnerable until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Comcast Xfinity Accounts Hacked in Widespread 2FA Bypass While Comcast is not saying much, a number of users who use Comcast email WITH 2FA are reporting their accounts being hacked. It appears this is due, possibly, to password reuse combined with a bug in Comcast’s system which allows the hackers to bypass 2FA. Once the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Source code is getting hacked more frequently these days. In March, Samsung announced that hackers had stolen source code to their Galaxy phones. Also in March, Microsoft said that hackers stole the source code for Bing, Maps and Cortana. In May Mercedes admitted that they had misconfigured a source code repository and anyone could download […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At some point in the “relatively near future”, if are a DoD contractor, subcontractor, vendor, managed service provider or a host of other folks, you will be staring a CMMC certification in the face. Here are some thoughts from a provisional assessor on what it will take to get the job done. Hopefully this is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]
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