While President Trump continues to deny that Russia interfered with the U.S. Elections, even though many other very knowledgeable people say the opposite, other countries are not so casual about it. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency chief says that Russia gathered large amounts of data in cyber attacks and no one knows what they will do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, so the title is a little dramatic. In this case, while the good guys became bad accidentally, but it doesn’t make the situation any better. Here are the details. There is a piece of Windows called the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine or MsMpEng. Apparently, a bug was introduced several versions ago that allows at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple sources are reporting that Homeland Security is considering banning all laptops and tablets from all cabins on all flights from Europe. An announcement is expected tomorrow and I will update this post if an announcement is made. DHS is saying today that no final decision has been made. While we don’t know what DHS […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Australian Red Cross recently apologized for losing control of 1.74 gigabytes of donor data. Included in the breach are name, address, email, phone number, date of birth and other information from blood donors. The data, 1.3 million records stored in 647 database tables is all the information the Australian Red Cross had on donors […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some say that the insider threat is the most serious threat to a business and without debating whether one threat is worse than another, here is a great example of the insider threat and how not to deal with it. First, the story. Last month, three executives of the Denver Post resigned and formed an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry, but I am not going to be very sympathetic to this law firm. Here is the story. A Rhode Island law firm, Moses Afonso Ryan, was hit with a ransomware attack. Apparently, the company did not have a plan for dealing with a ransomware attack. In general, if you have good backups and have […]
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