UPDATE: This is bill is apparently worse than I thought. The Register says that a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn has gathered 43,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Other comments include that the bill is so poorly written that it would outlaw the NSA’s encryption, unless they add a backdoor to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the downsides of collecting data is that you may have to disclose it. In Uber’s case, it collects a lot of data, so regulators and law enforcement can ask for that data. In this case, even though the release of all this data is not a breach, it still could be a cause […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Skycure, a mobile device protection vendor released its new mobile threat intelligence report and the data is not pretty. One thing the report says is that 40% of the mobile devices are at risk of a network attack over a four month window. Out of 51 million device scans in 2015, Skycure found almost 13,000 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wow. That is an impressive number. As I have talked about before, what the insurance industry calls business email compromise or BEC and what the FBI is calling CEO email fraud is a very lucrative business at $2.3 billion since January 2015. The way it works is the attacker does a little research on the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As you are probably aware, the number of publicly announced ransomware attacks seem to be going up geometrically. Some examples in the last month include: Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center – their systems were down for 10 days until they paid a ransom Henderson Kentucky Methodist Hospital Desert Valley and Chino Valley hospitals in Southern California […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are responsible for your cyber incident response team and you discover that you may have been breached – like the Trump Hotels this week – who should you call, and how should you contact them? I will answer the and how part first because it is easier. Walking down the hall is best. […]
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