Well, the first answer is that it is not going to help Rackspace defend itself against the lawsuits that it is facing for the ransomware attack. Rackspace now admits that it decided to hold off installing a patch for a server side request forgery vulnerability in Exchange (CVE-2022-41080) that Microsoft patched the month before the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the face of a security incident that Rackspace is being very opaque about, Rackspace’s stock is down 15% today. Rackspace is still not providing much information about what the hell is going on. Thousands of Rackspace customers globally continue to deal with the outage, which Rackspace says is related to a security incident (whatever […]
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