The new law is called The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act and it is a start. Just a start. While no one can agree how many billions of IoT devices are going to installed when, what we do know is that it is going to be tens of billions of devices and growing dramatically […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The “S” in Coworking Stands for Security While the WSJ says that coworking companies are closing money losing spaces as a result of Covid, don’t forget that coworking spaces are about as secure as airport WiFi, meaning not at all. The local news just said that some coworking companies are actually expanding as people want […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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