Kinetic warfare, a term that seems to have roots with former defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (see article), is the kind of war we are most familiar with – bombs, guns, bullets, poison gas. I don’t think it is going anywhere any time soon, but what is clear is that cyber warfare is likely to play […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In spite of all of the data breaches that we see on an almost daily basis, we have seen time and again that the courts have dismissed lawsuits for a variety of reasons. In many cases, the reason is called lack of standing. Under U.S. Federal law, standing is based on Article III of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Allscripts, the $1.5 billion medical technology and services firm, hosts a number of cloud based applications that doctors and hospitals use to run their operations. Hancock Health, that I wrote about on Monday, is one of their clients according to HealthcareITNews. About a week ago Allscripts was hit with a ransomware attack caused by the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Zyklon malware has been around since early 2016 and it is a nasty bit of business. It mostly arrives as a zip file (if you are not blocking zip attachments at your inbound mail gateway, you should do that now). Assuming it gets in and the use opens the zip file, it exploits three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware and hospitals. Not a great combination. The Register is reporting that Hancock Hospital paid ransom attackers $60,000 to get control of their system back. Hancock Health in Indiana was hit with a ransomware attack last week. As the hospital detected “something wrong”, they decided to shut down all hospital systems, all wellness center systems, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Defense contractors are wrestling with new contracting rules that went into place, sort of, as of December 31, 2017, with the requirement to be in compliance with NIST SP 800-171. NIST SP 800-171 defines over 100 cyber security requirements that defense contractors and sub-contractors must comply with. Prime contractors must ensure that their subs are […]
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