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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]False Claims Act Means Big Fines I had heard about the Department of Justice going after companies for misrepresenting things in federal contracts. I remember that Cisco paid a fine of less than $10 million, so I didn’t think it really meant much. But in a press release, the DoJ says that they recovered over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A New Trend? Insurers Offering Consumers Ransomware Coverage In what may be a new trend, Mercury Insurance is now offering individuals $50,000 of ransomware insurance in case your cat videos get encrypted. The good news is that the insurance may help you get your data back in case of an attack. The bad news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA hasn’t had a great few years. And it isn’t getting any better. First it was Snowden and dumping documents on seemingly a weekly basis. There were two schools of thought regarding Snowden. Some said he was a hero for disclosing illegal government actions Others said that he was a traitor for disclosing national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers claimed to have a group of NSA hacker tools available for sale on the dark web. The tools were supposedly stolen from the Equation Group which has been loosely linked to the NSA. If all of this is true, then the reality is that the NSA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said last night in the article about the European Court of Justice, every national intelligence agency that has the ability to do so is vacuuming data from the Internet. The Intercept wrote a very detailed article analyzing some new documents from the Edward Snowden document dump. The article links to the original documents […]
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