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Feds Trying to Figure Out Liability for Software Bugs

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission created a list six years ago of things the government should be doing with regard to cybersecurity policy. The commission made 82 recommendations and each year some of them have been enacted into law, usually as part of the national defense authorization act (NDAA), a must pass bill that funds the […]

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Security News Update for October 18, 2024

Now North Korea Using Fake IT Workers to Extort Employers Scams evolve. Now that the scam concept is public, North Korea is pivoting. They are extorting the companies that hire these North Koreans as IT employees after the employees steal corporate secrets. Read the details here. SURPRISE! (Not) – OpenAI Confirms Attackers use ChatGPT to […]

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Will Your DNA Data be Sold Soon?

15 million people trusted 23andMe with their DNA data. Their privacy policy says how they will use your data. Sort of. After all, lawyers wrote it. 23andMe is, to be polite, having a bit of a financial challenge. The stock is about to be delisted. It shut down its in-house drug development unit last month. […]

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Tenable Says 74% of Their Customers Have Publicly Exposed Storage and Misconfigs

According to a report that cloud security vendor Tenable released this week: In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. Overall, the […]

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Researchers Say Businesses Think Their Cybersecurity is Better Than it is

For those of in the cybersecurity industry this is not a big surprise. MxD is recognized as the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing by the Department of Defense and they conducted some interesting research. They conducted a survey of 750 manufacturing firms in several industries, including both big and small companies. Here is a […]

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