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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]WD NAS Devices Are Being Wiped Worldwide The downside of using computers beyond their end of support is that you can get hacked and all of your data can get wiped. This is what has happened to many WD My Book owners. Western Digital stopped patching them in 2015 and hackers have figured out how […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While China is a serious threat and the last administration pushed on that hard, that administration ignored Russia. Today the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies issued a joint alert titled Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks. The NSA, FBI and CISA said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence […]
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