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Security News Bites for March 7, 2025

Prez Eases Attacks On Moscow to Cozy Up to Putin As the president tries to get Putin to the negotiating table by continuing to make concessions to him, the Pentagon has told the NSA to stop offensive cyberattacks against Russia. This is the exact opposite of what he said he would do during the campaign. […]

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Security News Update for October 11, 2024

Microsoft Confirms MMC Bug Being Exploited – No Patch I could tell you to patch the bug but, for the 23rd time this year, the bug is being exploited in the wild and there is no patch. The bug, rated 7.8/10, is in the Microsoft Management Console tool and it was not among the 119 […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending April 19, 2024

Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 15, 2024

No Honor Among Crooks – Darknet Site Extorts Vendors, Buyers I guess we should not be surprised, but darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has posted a threat on its homepage that if its vendors and buyers don’t pay an extortion of between $100 and $20,000, they will publish all of their transaction and chat records. […]

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Insider Threat Problem is a Growing Issue

A US government worker has been arrested and charged with spying for Ethiopia. The problem is so bad that companies with government contracts have to create an insider threat program, provide annual training for all employees and designate an officer to be the Insider Threat Program Senior Official (ITPSO) – the person who will get […]

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Fired IT Admin Cripples Former Employer’s Network

This is actually not a unique story; it happens from time to time. Luckily, it doesn’t happen that often, but when it does, OH BOY! Casey Umetso, age 40, was a network administrator for a “prominent Hawaii-based financial services company”, the name of which, for some reason, the DoJ is trying to shield. After being […]

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