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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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Security News Update for Week Ending July 12, 2024

Cyber Insurance Prices Trending Down After insurance rates soared between 2020 and 2022, prices went down a little bit (15 percent) in 2023 due to increased competition, better vetting on the part of insurance companies and better company cybersecurity practices. It will be interesting to see where this trend goes, but we will take this […]

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CISA Says Track Your Assets and Vulnerabilities

CISA issued a Binding Operational Directive. BODs only are “binding” on federal executive branch agencies, but this is one time where if it is good for the feds, it is good for you. The directive tells agencies to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities. They have six months to comply. Specifically, they want agencies to […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 19, 2021

Old Scams Never Die, They Just Get a Fresh Coat of Paint Scammers have been posing, according to a warning by DHS, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in San Antonio. The scammers call the mark, pretending to be HSI and tell them there is a problem with their passport […]

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CISA Issues Cyber Goals & Objectives for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

While goals are CURRENTLY voluntary, CISA issued guidelines for what it expects from pipelines and other critical infrastructure in light of the Colonial Pipeline attack. While it appears that the hackers were not able to take over the control systems in that attack, they did take over the control systems in the Florida and Kansas […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 16, 2021

Supply Chain Attacks Roll On The Accellion File Transfer Appliance vulnerabilities have been the source of many breach notifcations over the last several months. For whatever reason, they seem to be dribbling out. The newest one is Morgan Stanley. In this case, it was a Morgan Stanley VENDOR that was using Accellion, so instead of […]

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