Important notes: Contact us if you need assistance *** NOTICE TO THE CMMC ECOSYSTEM *** 16 December 2024 CMMC Reaches Significant Program Milestone Today Updated guidance for the Ecosystem and defense contractors as CMMC Title 32 Final Rule enters into force The Cyber AB is recognizing today’s effective date of the Department of Defense’s codification […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This idea is a little light on details. Congressman Mike Waltz (R-FL), the administration’s pick for national security advisor said that our prioritizing cyber defense is not working. We have, over the years, improved defenses, but it is not enough. He said that we need to go on offense and impose higher costs and consequences […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware as a Chaos Mechanism This version of ransomware doesn’t require much skill. Rather than encrypting files and demanding a ransom, they are just deleting as many files as possible and watching the chaos with some popcorn and beer. Even if the company has good backups, and many don’t, it can still cause downtime, supply […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard of AI hallucinations – when the AI makes things up. Sometimes the risk is low, but other times, not so much. Slowly the courts are weighing in on the subject. In Moffatt v. Air Canada, the plaintiff asked for information about the airline’s bereavement policy. The chatbot told him he could […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI is great. Of course, anything that is great has to be immediately abused by hackers. Here are few popular AI based scams. VOICE CLONING If a hacker has 3 seconds of your voice, that is enough to clone it. Typically, they use calls of a loved one supposedly in distress, like in the hospital, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems simple, right? You pay for a cloud application to do something – or maybe it is free and you assume the vendor is responsible for the security of your data. Turns out, it is not quite that simple. In fact, far from it. Identity attacks – where the attacker somehow compromises an account, […]
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