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 now, with the development of greater automation and a backdrop…
Continue Reading Banks’ Top Concern is BEC (Business Email Compromise aka Spearphishing)!
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, seeking to scuttle a new state tax on their massive…
Continue Reading Lawsuit filed challenging a new Internet Advertising Tax!
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 county — with the largest number going to Collin.” …
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 infrastructure and technology-based industries.” The February 2021 report entitled…
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 to get these ideas into development sooner. These technologies are…
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 6 of the 10 Microsoft technologies:
1. Windows SMBv3 …
Continue Reading No surprise that Microsoft was very vulnerable in 2020!
