This is not a done deal yet, but it is a very interesting development and one, if it holds, that could have significant impact on a lot of countries, including the U.S. Over the last few years, a number of countries have enacted laws that allow their intelligence apparatuses to override many privacy laws and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD continues to take actions that lead us to believe that they are very serious about the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification process. This process will require that all DoD contractors ultimately get a third party cybersecurity certification on an annual basis if they want to continue to be part of the DoD food chain. When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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