Essays

US Federal Government Cybersecurity is Lacking

A new report from a United States Senate Committee gave 24 US department and agencies an average grade of C- in cybersecurity. That’s not good.

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Lazio & BlackMatter Bring Ransomware Into the Spotlight…Again

The region of Lazio was hit by a ransomware attack and is struggling to recover from this attack on critical infrastructure. BlackMatter, a new ransomware supergroup, just announced they wouldn't conduct these types of attacks. What does it mean for the future of ransomware?

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Hackers Attempt To Extort Electronic Arts (EA), Fail, Then Leak Source Code

EA got hacked and 780 GB of source code was stolen. The hackers attempted to extort EA and when they didn't pay, the data was dumped online.

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Twitter Shows Slow MFA Adoption, Is Security Unusable?

Twitter's latest transparency report shows a low uptake for the multi-factor authentication feature. This is a great security control that's easy to use. What's going on?

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Pegasus Spyware Runs Roughshod over Human Rights

The Pegasus Project is a collaborative effort by a number of media and advocacy organizations around to the world. With their work, they are shining a light on nation state use a specific malware tool: Pegasus spyware.

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US Government Puts Cybersecurity Front and Center

There are now 5 seniors leaders in the US federal governments with cybersecurity as their primary mandate. Is this going to be a problem?

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New Ransomware Resources For Defenders

Two new resources launched to help people understand the challenges associated with ransomware; StopRansomware.gov and RansomWhe.re

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REvil-ed Ransomware Group Goes Kaput?

REvil has been one of the top ransomware groups for the past few months but they're suddenly offline. No note, no warning, just gone.

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