Do you use multi-factor authentication? Google says that less than 10 percent of its users use MFA. They were concerned that if they made people use MFA they would leave. Not sure what they would leave to? Who else offers as compelling a suite of software. For free. Or at least just for stealing all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Syniverse is a company that no one has ever heard of. They act as an interconnection between 300 mobile carriers and 95 of the top 100 carriers. They are the reason you can send a text message to your friend who is not on the same phone carrier as you are. It also allows you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Women, Minorities are Hacked More Than Others A new report, released this week, says that lower income and vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected by cyber crime. Shockingly (not), the report says that those with lower incomes, lower education and minority groups are more likely to fall victim to cyber crime. While the gap is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s Encrypt is the free HTTPS encryption service that is used by millions of web sites. Since it started out as a good idea of two Mozilla employees in 2012, it has issued about 2 billion free TLS certificates. The history behind this organization is long and convoluted. The industry has a high bar for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While goals are CURRENTLY voluntary, CISA issued guidelines for what it expects from pipelines and other critical infrastructure in light of the Colonial Pipeline attack. While it appears that the hackers were not able to take over the control systems in that attack, they did take over the control systems in the Florida and Kansas […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March of 2020 Donald Trump signed a bill requiring rural telecom companies to replace suspected vulnerable Huawei telecom equipment. The government would even pay for the replacement. For whatever reason, the Trump administration never did anything to make that happen. Finally, 18 months later (if this is really a security threat, shouldn’t something have […]
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