Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reports are that reported breaches are down. This is likely not due to the fact that there are less breaches, just less reports. Wait six months and see what the breach reports look like. Security firm Tessian released their State of Data Loss report and here are some of the things they found. 52 percent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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