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Telcos Not Doing Good at Preventing SIM Swap Attacks

A SIM is the (usually) hardware card that gives your phone its “personality”.  The SIM is tied to the carrier and contains all the information that the phone needs to talk to your carrier. As users SLOOOOWLY migrate to using text messages as an extra layer of authentication for logging in to a variety of […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 10, 2020

Albany Int’l Airport Hit By Ransomware via MSP In what is becoming an all too common story, the Managed Service Provider that supported Albany, NY’s airport, Logical Net of Schenectady, NY, was hacked and from there, the hackers were able to connect to the airports administrative network and infect it with REvil ransomware, the same […]

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And You Think YOU Have a Problem Finding Cybersecurity Talent

If you have tried to hire any cybersecurity talent recently, you know that experienced folks are hard to find, hard to keep and expensive.  That is why we offer the virtual Chief Information Security Officer program. But if you are the federal government and you have hundreds of agencies and millions of employees – not […]

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Phishing Campaign Takes Different Tactic With Similar Outcome

When phishers attack users, they typically try to steal your credentials – your userid and password.  If you are one of the small percentage of users that religiously use two factor authentication (Google says that 90% of GMail users do not use two factor authentication), these password thefts do not help a hacker unless they […]

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Are Smart Cars Safe Cars?

Here is the punch line. Automotive cybersecurity incidents doubled in 2018 and are up 605% since 2016.  That doesn’t seem that safe to me. Here are some statistics from Upstreams 2019 automotive cybersecurity report: 330 million vehicles are already connection and top brands in the US say that they will only sell connected vehicles this […]

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