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New password guidelines from the US federal government via NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines regarding secure passwords. Who is NIST? NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency whose purpose is to promote U.S. [...]
When is the driverless car arriving for you?
All electric and self-driving car technology fascinates me. As a race car driver, I can see that we are not too far away from the time where the computers and software will lap [...]
Preventable ransomware attack leads to unrecoverable $700,000 loss
A 10 attorney law firm discovered the cost of failing to protect its systems from ransomware the hard way. An attorney clicked on a phishing e-mail, leading to a ransomware attack. The firm [...]
What changed in NIST 800-171 r1?
If you must comply with NIST 800-171 under DFARS you may wonder what has changed with the first revision, released in December, 2016. There are two substantive changes: "Information Systems" has been replaced by "Systems" throughout [...]
Endgame on how Wannacry ransomware works
There has been a lot of discussion about the method of propagation and the overall impact of this ransomware, but what does this ransomware actually do from start to finish? Click HERE or on the [...]
Wannacry ransomware’s rich cousin – Is your computer mining money for hackers?
Here are a couple of snippets from Perth Now Sunday Times in Australia ANOTHER large-scale, stealthy cyber-attack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week’s assault on computers worldwide. The new attack targets [...]