TSA Updates Cybersecurity Guidelines for Pipeline Operators After the Colonial Pipeline meltdown last year, TSA, who regulates pipeline cybersecurity (don’t ask), issued a set of regulations for pipeline operators to follow. Given that TSA had less than a dozen people in their cybersecurity department and zero industrial IoT expertise, it is not a surprise that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Centurylink Routing Issues Lead to Massive Internet Outage Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, Centurylink had a bit of a problem, either taking down or severely impacting web site such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Steam, Twitter and many more. Just because a system was designed to stay operating in case of a nuclear attack does not mean that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, this is not a new Bond movie; it is, instead, an example of one of the many weaknesses of an Internet that was never designed to handle malicious attackers. I will try to make this as non-technical as I can, but it will be a bit technical, so please stay with me. Larger Internet […]
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