SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. OCC, FRB and FDIC Propose New Rule – Tell Us If You Have a Security Incident The federal banking regulators are proposing a new rule that banks and tech companies that service banks need to report to their regulator within 36 hours if the have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DHS released a report this week regarding BOD 16-02. A BOD or Binding Operational Directive is DHS’s way of telling executive branch agencies that they have to do something. Like really. In this case the issue is that hackers were abusing bugs in Internet routers, specifically Cisco routers. Why Cisco? Because they are the biggest […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2015 some 380 million international travelers arrived in the U.S. and only 8,503 of those travelers had their electronic devices searched – only .002 percent. That is a pretty small number. In 2016 there were 390 million international arrivals and CBP examined the devices of 19,033 of them – a little more than double […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the OPM continues to muddle around in dealing with their breach and telling the public what happened, more news stories are coming out. First, the White House ordered agencies to tighten things up in a security sprint. While using agile terminology is nifty, my guess is that most of these agencies are more familiar […]
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