Security firm Black Kite says that 20 percent of America’s largest 100 defense contractors are highly susceptible to a ransomware attack. Why do they say this? Nearly 43% of federal defense contractors have out-of-date systems, giving them a D+ rating for patch management. 42% of contractors have had at least one credential compromised in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why? Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence! For those of you who are not familiar with MI-6, even via a somewhat romanticized version in James Bond movies, MI-6 is Britain’s spy agency. Working along MI-5 and GCHQ, their goal is to protect Britain from the bad guys. MI-6, similar to our CIA, prefers to stay in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While arresting 1,000 people in a four month long operation is a significant feat, it is likely mostly very low level people that they caught. They also recovered $27 million in proceeds. Given that the estimate is that Internet crime will cost us $10 trillion a year by 2025, recovering $27 million doesn’t seem like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China’s policymaking body, the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (I did not make up this name) approved a plan yesterday for developing home grown science and technology with an eye toward self-sufficiency. According to a press release by the state run news agency, Xi said that while China has made substantial progress in trying to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As part of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), NIST is required to do several things. among those are guides and standards for improving supply chain security and they have already released a number of draft documents related to their tasks. IF you sell to the executive branch, these will become […]
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