You probably haven’t thought about this if you are privately owned. You might not even heard about it. Effective September 5th, publicly traded companies have four business days to disclose a material breach. That disclosure, on a form 8-K, will be publicly available on the SEC’s EDGAR public company reporting site. The same place they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A US government worker has been arrested and charged with spying for Ethiopia. The problem is so bad that companies with government contracts have to create an insider threat program, provide annual training for all employees and designate an officer to be the Insider Threat Program Senior Official (ITPSO) – the person who will get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Coalition Insurance, which is pretty aggressive in refusing to insure customers unless they have better than average security practices released their mid-year update on claims. Here is the summary: Overall claims frequency increased by 12% in the first half of 2023, however, Coalition customers experienced 64% fewer claims compared to the broader market, with 52% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That doesn’t mean they will stop trying. Going back to the 1990s and the Communications Decency Act, and then the Child Online Protection Act in 1998, the Supremes keep saying that it is not the government’s role to regulate speech. Of course the government only tries to regulate speech that is unpopular, whether it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The help desk was operated by a third party. The hackers conned the help desk, it is reported, to reset all of the two factor methods that were set up to protect a super-admin account. They likely did this after they phished an employee for his/her userid and password. They used deceptive phone calls to […]
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