Let me give you the answer up front – we won’t know the full extent of it for years. Okay, first what is Chevron? In the last days of this year’s Supreme Court term, the court issued a ruling that says that the forty year old Supreme Court ruling, Chevron, the court said that lower […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Evolve Bank & Trust breach is getting uglier by the day. In fairness, it didn’t start out very pretty. A ransomware gang claimed they hacked the Federal Reserve and wanted millions in ransom. It turns out that they attacked Evolve and did, in fact, steal a bunch of data from them. Evolve had been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Good news and bad news — After five years and many false starts, it looks like CMMC may happen this fall – MAY HAPPEN. That is good news if you are concerned about national security. But bad news if you will have to comply, likely some time in 2025, with CMMC and get certified. A […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this month the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was hit by a cyber attack. The breach affected 24 million students and about 50,000 teachers. Now we are learning more about it. For students, the data includes: For teachers, similar data was breached but more teacher specific data. Part of the problem is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]
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