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
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AI may improve major social problems!
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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…
No surprise that Microsoft was very vulnerable in 2020!
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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 …
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Managing Privacy Continues to be a Major Problem!
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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 January 27, 2021 article entitled “Privacy is not…
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Cyberattacks Directed at 33,0000 Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol Servers (RDP)!
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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 to corporate systems and services.” The January 25, 2021…
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FedRAMP helping safe cloud deployments!
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HelpNetSecurity.com reported that government “agencies are in their cloud adoption journey, …using FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) solutions in their cloud environments.” The January 8, 2021 article entitled “Confidence in FedRAMP driving cloud deployments” included these key findings:
91% of federal agency respondents and…
Do you know your Bitcoin password?
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported about a lost password for Bitcoin that “Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million.” The January 12, 2021 article entitled “Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires…
Do You Think Technology Has Destroyed Society?
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On March 29, 2009 I posted a blog about my “Internet Big Bang Theory” which included my “4th Big Bang– Distribution of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in July 1995 with Windows 95” so I was not surprised by Wired.com’s story about a 1995 $1,000 bet that technology…
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Maybe we will get Wi-Fi 6 in 2021!
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “This year, the technologies that we will most likely hear the most about won’t be fancy devices like smartphones or big-screen television sets. It will be the stuff we don’t usually see: workhorse software and internet products that are finding their moment now.” The January…
CIO Self-Deception Impacts Everyone and of Course Includes Cybersecurity!
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CIO.com reported that included this quote from Scottish novelist Walter Scott “O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” The December 23, 2020 article entitled “10 lies CIOs tell themselves” includes these comments about “CIO self-deception #8: Our information security is tight”
Remember…
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