Pitney Bowes Hit By Ransomware for 2nd Time in 7 Months Pitney Bowes has verified that it has been hit by a ransomware attack for the second time in 7 months. This time it is the maze ransomware, which steals data before encrypting your systems. Sometimes ransomware hackers leave their hooks in a victim’s system […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I bet there is a large chunk of the folks reading this that will say that we don’t use open source software. And then there is another large chunk that says we’re good; all up to date. My guess is that both of these statements are wrong. Synopsys did a study and found these two […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting chart from Gartner: What are legal and compliance folks worried about in the era of Covid-19? Increased cyber risk. “Remote working has been hastily adopted by suppliers to keep their business running, so it’s unlikely every organization or employee is following best practices,” said Vidhya Balasubramanian, managing vice president in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As software makers start to take security more seriously, hackers are becoming more creative. When Apple and Microsoft started doing a better job of finding and patching bugs in their operating systems more quickly, hackers started looking at other applications installed on users’ computers. As the makers of the other software installed on computers started […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Once a new bug is publicly announced, it takes, on average, seven days for bad guys to figure out how to weaponize it. Experts say that this means that you need to harden your systems against that new attack within 72 hours. That is not very long, even for the best of operations. How long […]
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