Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Remind Folks that Money Stored in Fintech Platforms Like eBay are at Risk US consumers have billions of dollars stored on platforms like eBay, Venmo and a number of others. The feds want to remind you that if you do that, you are “self insuring”, meaning that maybe the platform will return your money […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New White Paper on the Global Cyberwar and Societal Response We have just released a new white paper and are looking for feedback on this non-technical paper titled The Global Cyberwar and Societal Response. The target audience for this white paper is business and IT pros who want to be knowledgeable about managing company risk […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One More Time-Vendor Says Their HW is Buggy and They Are Not Going to Patch Them This is not new news. Vendors only patch hardware and software for so long and then, YOU NEED TO REPLACE IT. Even if it is still “working” -because the hackers still find bugs. But now, you have no protection. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I talk a lot about the insider threat problem because it is prevalent and hard to stop. Cisco learned about that the hard way. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh resigned from Cisco in April 2018. OK, good, time to move on. FIVE MONTHS LATER, he accessed Cisco’s infrastructure at Amazon and deployed code that shut down 16,000 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco: Critical Bug Allows Remote Takeover of Routers Cisco rated this bug 10 out of 10. For users of Cisco 4000 series ISRs, ASR 1000 series aggregation routers, 1000v cloud routers and integrated services virtual routers, an unauthenticated user can gain full control just by sending a malicious HTTP request. So yet another reminder that […]
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