This is a bit like the old question “are you still beating your spouse?” In order to answer that you would have to admit that you had been doing it previously. The NSA, as far as I know, hasn’t admitted to placing back doors in tech products but there is a lot of information that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orca Security scanned more than 2,200 virtual appliance images – the same ones that your company probably uses every day. The images represented over 500 vendors. They were found on the marketplaces at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others. They included both open source and commercial (licensed) software. Orca created a scoring system that ran from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are a number of obvious ways like compromising the election software that voters use to vote, but that is likely to be hard to do. They are spreading disinformation which may cause Americans to not trust the election process and therefore not vote. That is much easier to do and some of our elected […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GAO Tells Treasury: Track Cyber Risk in Financial Sector The GAO told Treasury to work with Homeland Security to better track cyber risk in the financial sector. The GAO says that Treasury does not track efforts or prioritize them. The “sector specific” security plan was last updated in 2016 and, of course, most of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am not sure whether this is a surprise or not. The apps for both Biden and Trump are not secure. Does that show up as a surprise to you? Let’s start with Biden’s App. Biden’s iOS app did not even validate the email addresses, so anyone, say in North Korea can download and abuse […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes we focus on the details of cybersecurity protections. And ignore the core issues. In a lot of cases, when companies office in multi-tenant office buildings, the Internet comes into a shared area of the building that is not part of the company’s leased space. This is called a Dmarc for point of demarcation. The […]
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