As millions upon millions of IoT and Industrial IoT devices get deployed every month, we seem to have forgotten what we learned the hard way about our computers: if we don’t patch them, the hackers will invade. #1: A set of bugs called Urgent/11 affected a network module that has been around since the 90s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UK Proposes Weak Security Law for IoT Devices; Calls it Strong The UK is proposing a law similiar to California’s existing IoT law and calls it strong security. What makes it strong is that they call it strong, maybe? The bill requires that default passwords on IoT devices be unique (likely part of the serial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Medical devices have never been subjected to much security testing – a fact that the FDA may argue with, but which is visibly accurate. This time it is GE’s CIC Pro, a workstation that hospital staff uses to manage multiple GE patient devices on a ward. They can use the device to monitor patients or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple’s Ad Tracking Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market Two years ago Apple decided that since they don’t earn a lot of revenue from ads and Google, their competitor in the phone business, does, wouldn’t it be great to do something to hurt them. Oh, yeah, we can pretend the real reason we are doing it […]
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