Why? Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence! For those of you who are not familiar with MI-6, even via a somewhat romanticized version in James Bond movies, MI-6 is Britain’s spy agency. Working along MI-5 and GCHQ, their goal is to protect Britain from the bad guys. MI-6, similar to our CIA, prefers to stay in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is probably not a surprise to anyone who is past elementary school – and probably not to many who are still in elementary school, but the group that was behind last year’s SolarWinds attack is still at it. Just like with SolarWinds, they are going after the global supply chain. 140 managed service providers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply Chain Attacks Roll On The Accellion File Transfer Appliance vulnerabilities have been the source of many breach notifcations over the last several months. For whatever reason, they seem to be dribbling out. The newest one is Morgan Stanley. In this case, it was a Morgan Stanley VENDOR that was using Accellion, so instead of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The last presidential administration went hard after China – applying sanction after sanction, but with minimal success. They also seemed to give Russia a free pass. Many of the very public recent hacks are being attributed to Russia, including SolarWinds and Kaseya. When Biden met with Putin in Helsinki last month, the two agreed to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]WD NAS Devices Are Being Wiped Worldwide The downside of using computers beyond their end of support is that you can get hacked and all of your data can get wiped. This is what has happened to many WD My Book owners. Western Digital stopped patching them in 2015 and hackers have figured out how […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While China is a serious threat and the last administration pushed on that hard, that administration ignored Russia. Today the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies issued a joint alert titled Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks. The NSA, FBI and CISA said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence […]
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