If you own or manage a small business that is part of the DOD supply chain, then you should be well on your way to completing the 130+ item compliance checklist as set out in NIST 800-171. Compliance needs to be in place by the end of 2017, only a few months away. Because I am working with a few clients that this ...
We have covered this issue before, but it bears repeating. The new NIST Digital Identity Guidelines are out, and they have thrown out some old password chestnuts because they did not work, or did not work as intended.
Below are the significant changes to password policy.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Veteran’s day is a remembrance of all U.S. military veterans – past and present. It is celebrated every November 11th, and has been a federal holiday since 1926.
10/31/2017 08:14 AM EDT Original release date: October 31, 2017
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Websites are a popular target for cyber-criminals, because they offer a platform for malicious activity. A hijacked website can be used for hosting malware downloads or phishing landing pages. Personal information stored in a website database about site users, including user names and passwords and other personal information can be extracted, decrypted, and sold on the Dark Web.
I have devoted many articles to properly securing WordPress websites. Now there is ...
Continue Reading →People often ask me if it is dangerous to simply open an email, if it is possible to get a malware inflection just by reading an email. My answer has been a qualified “not at this time.” Unfortunately, this is no longer true. It is possible to get a malware installation from the new DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) exploits reveal by Sophos Labs on October 13 2017. This can be accomplished without an attachment or link if the email is ...
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Happy Halloween! Nothing like a scary story to end the holiday. The scary story in cybersecurity is that Kaspersky anti-malware and security products are in league with the Putin government and the FSB in Russia. The FBI is advising government agencies to drop Kaspersky and find a new endpoint security solution.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated through a holding company in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky was founded ...
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Over the last four posts, we have focused on the US-CERT alert, but cybersecurity firm Symantec has actually been working this case since 2011. Their report on Dragonfly can be found on their website. While they are cautous when providing attribution, reading between the lines indicates that Dragonfly is probably a Russian based group, possibly working on ...
Is the U.S. energy sector under attack? The ambitious and sophisticated exploits like this one are usually the work of a nation-state. Who wants to turn off the lights? Last Wednesday we took a look at the US-CERT alert warning about the ongoing cyber-attack against the U.S. electric grid, and on Friday we took a look at many of the ...
Somebody wants to punch our lights out – literally turn off the electric power grid. Who would want to do this? Russia? North Korea? Cybersecurity firm Symantec has attributed this attack to a group they have identified as the Dragonfly Group, who may have been responsible for the attack on the Ukrainian electric grid in 2015 and ...
Somebody wants to punch our lights out – literally turn off the electric power grid. Who would want to do this? Who has the capability? Is it the Russians, who have already demonstrated this attack two years ago in the Ukraine? Or the North Koreans, who have both motive and the cyber army to carry it off? Cybersecurity firm Symantec has ...