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Security News for the Week Ending July 16, 2021

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 […]

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What is the U.S. Going to do About Putin?

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 […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 2, 2021

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 […]

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NSA/FBI/CISA Issue Alert – Russia SVR

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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Solar Winds Breach Keeps Getting Better

Well, maybe better is not the right word. Quick catch up for those of you who are not following this. The Russians hacked the software update process for the high end network management software called Orion from Solar Winds. This software is typically used by large enterprises and government agencies. This hack gave them access […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 23, 2020

Iran or Russia – Who Should We Worry About? The FBI and the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday issued a joint warning that a Kremlin hacking crew is probing or breaking into systems belonging to the US government and aviation industry. The joint advisory states that the team, known as Energetic Bear among […]

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