What could go wrong? As we rush headlong to deploy billions of Internet of Things devices with no regard to security, that doesn’t make security problems go away. Security researchers today disclosed nine vulnerabilities affecting implementations of the Domain Name System protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks running on at least 100 million devices. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fitch Ratings, one of the big creditworthiness ratings firms for businesses, published an alert today regarding the impact of cyberattacks on an organization’s creditworthiness. Their ratings affect an organization’s ability to borrow money because they are worried that unexpected events like cyberattacks could pose financial and operating risks that ultimately affect an organization’s ability to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Director General Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks. He said that foreign hackers are taking advantage of the Intelligence community’s blind spot – adversaries working INSIDE the United States. Our adversaries can come into the United States, set up shop on the web, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After SolarWinds and after the Microsoft Exchange attacks, the feds have begun to outline their plans to improve cybersecurity. While there are no silver bullets in this business, it is a nice change to see the feds actively working to improve things. The way the feds have worked things in the past is to use […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Encrypted Phone Firm Sky ECC “Hacked” by Police Police have arrested 48 people and confiscated 14 tons of Cocaine and over a million Euros, after decrypting a half billion messages and listening in on the bad guys for several weeks. The phone company said that they don’t think the encryption was cracked, but rather, they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting from the beginning. DNS is the service that converts the web site address that you type in your browser like WWW.CNN.COM into the numbers, like 2a04:4e42:200::323:, that the Internet needs in order to connect you to that web site. DNS was invented because they didn’t think the web would be really popular if you […]
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