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Federal Cyber Safety Board Says Microsoft Security Culture is Inadequate

The cyber safety review board is similar to the FAA’s National Transportation Safety Board, except that they are investigating Cybersecurity crashes (breaches) rather than airplane or container ship crashes. The board is new. It was created by Executive Order 14028 in 2021. They only convene when requested to by the Secretary of Homeland Security and, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 9, 2022

Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]

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Why The Microsoft Exchange Email Hack is So Bad

The media continues to report on the Microsoft Exchange hack, likely perpetrated by China. Reports are that at least 30,000 Exchange servers in the United States are impacted and some people say that number is likely way underestimated. On top of that, the number of servers worldwide is maybe ten times that number. Given all […]

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