Alerts, Best Practices, Compliance, Legal, Security Practices

Justice Department Going After Cybersecurity Fraud

March 8, 2024 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

The False Claims Act (FCA) is a Civil War era law that both penalizes companies for lying about their cybersecurity protections and rewarding whistleblowers for turning in fraudsters. In 2021 the Justice Department created a new initiative to stem civil-cyber fraud. One of the beneficiaries of that is the Defense Department which has been plagued […]

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Alerts, Software Development

Bug in Git Software Could Make Software Repositories Vulnerable

May 31, 2018 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Git, the software used by millions of software developers to manage their source code – the crown jewels of most corporations – is vulnerable to two different attacks. The first bug would allow a malicious attacker to overwrite code in folders where they should not be. The second bug allows an attacker to read arbitrary […]

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