Per the Freedom of Information Act, US citizens have the right to access information from the federal government. We can visit Data.gov to search the more than 197,000 current datasets currently indexed on the site. While the intent is to leverage that data for the public good, there’s also an enormous amount of information available … Continue Reading
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness team (US-CERT) operates within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), protecting America by responding to major incidents, analyzing threats, and exchanging critical cyber security information with trusted partners around the world. You may have already signed up for the popular email alert … Continue Reading
Back in August, the Associated Press ran this article profiling how a North Carolina manufacturer has been attacked twice by cyber criminals looking to install malware and cripple the “just-in-time” nature of their operations so that they’d be willing to pay a ransom to return to production. While this manufacturer avoided paying the ransom so far, … Continue Reading
WPA2 is the “secure” implementation option used by the vast majority of enterprise WiFi systems – other protocols have their own security issues, which is why everyone moved to WPA2. Unfortunately, researches have found a way to break that security. The good news is, for most attacks the attacker has to be on the same access … Continue Reading
A good lesson for technology providers: if security researchers reach out to you, acknowledge them as quickly as possible, especially when they’ve discovered a critical vulnerability. If you work with them to remediate the issue, you may be able to get a patch out before they feel the need to publish the vulnerability for the … Continue Reading
This guidance supplements the FTC’s “Start With Security, A Guide for Business” publication which was published in June 2015. Please share with your security professionals.… Continue Reading
Acting Secretary of DHS, Elaine Duke, issued a BOD requiring departments and agencies to identify the use or presence of all Kaspersky products on their information systems and to develop detailed plans to remove and discontinue present and future use of the products and to finalize implementation of those plans within 3 months. She is … Continue Reading
