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Security News for the Week Ending August 23, 2019

Remember That Vague Client Alert Earlier This Week? For those of you who are clients, you received an out of cycle client alert on Tuesday (they usually come out on Wednesday) providing a copy of the Homeland Security Alert on the Sodinokibi ransomware going after Managed Service Providers or MSPs.   It now appears that the […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 9, 2019

Researchers Hack WPA 3 Again The WiFi Alliance has always keep their documents secret.  The only way that you even get a copy of the specs is to become a member and that will cost you $5k-$20k a year, depending on your role. The same team that reported the bugs called Dragonblood found these new […]

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Cloud Service Providers Are Not Immune from Ransomware

You moved your applications to the cloud.  Now you don’t have to worry about managing IT systems.  The headaches are someone else’s. Well sort of. Here is what customers of Quickbooks cloud hosting provider iNSYNNQ are seeing when they try to log on: This is what they have been seeing for the last three days. […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 21, 2019

Asus Was Not Alone I wrote about the Asus supply chain attack in March (search for Asus in the blog search box).  Attackers, somehow, compromised the development environment, injected malware and allowed the system to compile, digitally sign and distribute it through the software update process.  Hundreds of thousands of clients were infected as a […]

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Security News For The Week Ending May 3, 2019

U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking.  The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]

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$1.3 Billion is a Lot of Money

The FBI says that reported losses due to Business EMail Compromise attacks reached a whopping $1.3 billion in 2018, double the losses reported in 2017. On the other hand, the number of ransomware complaints is down to levels reported in 2014. There were 20,373 Business EMail Attacks reported last year, compared to 15,690 in 2017.  […]

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