Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint warning about malware attacks targeting U.S. nuclear plants. The malware has been operating since May. The Amber Alert, the second highest alert level that DHS issues said that the attacks, for the moment are targeting employees’ personal computers as opposed to the isolated network that actually controls […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some in Congress and the Intelligence Services are concerned that Kaspersky’s security software could be co-opted by the Russian government and be used to spy on American companies who use the software. Fundamentally, this is no different than concerns that people have that the U.S. spy agencies could or already have forced U.S. companies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is interesting to see what data companies collect on us. Unfortunately, that usually happens when the company suffers a breach. WWE joined the crowd of businesses that can’t quite remember to protect data that they make publicly accessible on the Internet. One more time, the data was stored at Amazon. In this case it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of the recent London Bridge terrorist attack using a truck as a weapon, British Prime Minister Theresa May has renewed her desire for software vendors to provide her with an encryption backdoor so that British law enforcement can look at messages from iPhones and Facebook’s Whatsapp, among other software. In the U.S., […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have heard from two big name firms who succumbed to the recent Petya/NotPetya ransomware attack and they provide interesting insights into dealing with the attack. First a quick background. A week ago the world was coming to grips with a new ransomware attack. Initially called Petya because it looked like a strain of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is certainly not a breach, it surely is not what you are expecting. Have you ever noticed after you went to a web site, started to fill out a form but then abandoned it, that you got an email from the web site? If you have gotten one, you are not alone. That […]
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