Well it seemed like the whole damn country. Over 15,000 website have been hacked, including, not surprisingly, newspapers, government offices and TV stations. After the sites were defaced by the hackers, they were taken offline. Newspapers said it was the biggest attack in the country’s history, even bigger than the 2008 attack by Russia. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s assume that you are a major international airport that moves 45 million passengers and 97,000 tons of cargo a year, Then let’s say you have some form of IT failure. How do you communicate with your customers? At London’s Gatwick airport, apparently your DR plan consists of trotting out a small white board and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While yet another local government being shut down by a ransomware attack is old news these days, it still can point to a few valuable things. This time it is Davidson County, NC, home of Greensboro. At 2:00 in the morning the county’s CIO was woken up – there was something strange going on with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What would happen to your business if your credit card processor shut down? If you do online bill pay, what would happen if it shut down? Millions of people and businesses got to figure that one out this month when Paypal’s TIO Networks unit suddenly shut down. TIO does payment processing, both for merchants and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have heard from two big name firms who succumbed to the recent Petya/NotPetya ransomware attack and they provide interesting insights into dealing with the attack. First a quick background. A week ago the world was coming to grips with a new ransomware attack. Initially called Petya because it looked like a strain of the […]
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