BankInfoSecurity.com reported that there was about “370 million in known 2020 ransomware profits – via ransoms that got paid – which represents a 336% increase over known 2019 earnings…. Ransomware dominated the online-enabled crime landscape in 2020, some security experts
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What’s the message about Cloud Contracts since AWS declined to testify to the Senate about SolarWinds?
By Peter Vogel
Darkreading.com reported that “Conspicuously missing from the panel was Amazon Web Services (AWS), which declined the Senate’s invitation to testify — a snub that appeared to rile several senators on the committee. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., pointed out that the…
Banks’ Top Concern is BEC (Business Email Compromise aka Spearphishing)!
By Peter Vogel
HelpNetSecurity.com reported that “Smaller firms were hit the hardest (26% of small business fraud had a tie to the virus, as opposed to only 17% for larger companies). Presumably, their potential payouts previously fell below the radar of criminals who…
Lawsuit filed challenging a new Internet Advertising Tax!
By Peter Vogel
In February 2016 I blogged about “Great news for eCommerce! Congress passes Permanent Ban on Internet Taxes!” but the Washington Post reported “Top lobbying groups backed by Amazon, Facebook, Google and other technology giants sued Maryland on Thursday,…
Collin County, Texas (my client for 30+ years) is poaching talent from Dallas County!
By Peter Vogel
The DallasNews.com reported that “Collin County ranked No. 3 in the U.S. for attracting and developing talent, according to Emsi’s 2020 Talent Attraction Scorecard. Dallas County ranked 555th, in large part because so many workers migrated out of the…
Here’s Some Advice about Cyber risks for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services!
By Peter Vogel
NIST issued NISTIR 8323 since “It seeks to protect the national and economic security of the United States from the disruption or manipulation of systems that form or use PNT data and information vital to the functioning of U.S. critical…
AI may improve major social problems!
By Peter Vogel
MIT Sloan Review reported that “New technologies such as machine learning, robotics, digital twins, and supercomputing can dramatically improve the odds of successful discovery — through faster and more efficient selection of the most promising new ideas and accelerated testing…
No surprise that Microsoft was very vulnerable in 2020!
By Peter Vogel
HelpNetSecurity.com reported “Vulnerability intelligence-as-a-service outfit vFeed has compiled a list of the top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities from 2020…” The February 3, 2021 report entitled “Top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities from 2020” listed these Top 10 – with…
Managing Privacy Continues to be a Major Problem!
By Peter Vogel
HelpNetSecurity.com reported that “Survey findings—gathered in Q3 2020 from 1,873 professionals who work in data privacy or have knowledge of their organizations’ data privacy functions—show some positive trends for those enterprises who report they always use privacy by design.” The…
Cyberattacks Directed at 33,0000 Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol Servers (RDP)!
By Peter Vogel
BankInfoSecurity.com reported “that researchers have identified about 33,000 vulnerable Microsoft RDP servers that could be abused by threat actors to boost their DDoS attacks. RDP is a proprietary Microsoft communications protocol that system administrators and employees use to remotely connect…