Senator Ron Wyden, who is possibly the biggest advocate on Capitol Hill for cybersecurity and privacy, laid into UnitedHealth Group’s CEO for their cybersecurity practices. Their practices led to a breach that affected possibly one third of the adults in the US who have health insurance. Senator Wyden also asked the FTC and SEC to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As a follow on to last week’s posts on why patching is critical and the CERT alert on The Shadow Broker’s release of a whole raft of firewall hacks, this week Cisco is announcing that their software is vulnerable to attack, there is no workaround and they are working on patches. BUT, there is a […]
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