Biden
Biden Admin Eyes IoT Cybersecurity With Device Labeling Program
The Biden administration unveiled a cybersecurity certification and labeling program that will make it easier for enterprises and consumers to see which smart devices are more secure and less vulnerable to attacks ...
Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, BetterHelp’s FTC Fine, Chick-fil-A Data Breach
What you need to know about Biden’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy, which aims to provide a framework of what the current administration wants the US federal government, critical infrastructure organizations, and private ...
TikTok Circumvents Privacy Protections, Russian Sanction Attacks, Apple AirTag Anti-Stalking Measures
How TikTok can circumvent privacy protections and performs device tracking that gives TikTok full access to user data, the US government warns about ransomware attacks after Biden’s new sanctions against Russia, and ...
Pandemic Surveillance in Canada, Malware-Filled USB Sticks are Back, Kill Switches in New Cars
Canada’s federal government admitted to surveilling its population’s movements during the COVID-19 lock-down by tracking 33 million phones, the FBI warned that a hacker group has been sending malware-laden USB sticks to ...
Update on the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
New executive orders on cybersecurity are always packed with positive-sounding actions with assigned deadlines. The Biden administration’s EO on improving the nation’s cybersecurity came in the wake of the SolarWinds and Colonial ...
Ransomware Whack-a-Mole
Pretty much everyone is familiar with the carnival game Whack-a-Mole. No matter how many moles you bash with the mallet, it seems like two more pop up in its place. It’s commonly ...
Ransomware: The Global Cybersecurity Pandemic
I am sitting in Paris this week at the Les Asis conference, but my mind is also on Biden’s ransomware summit as ransomware took center stage again this week. No, not because ...
Off Limits Critical Infrastructure, Ransomware on Repeat, Cyber Safe Drinking Water
What does it really mean when Biden tells Putin critical US infrastructure is “off limits”, details on a recent survey which shows ransomware payments create repeat attacks, and how cyber safe is ...
Ransomware Attacks: Will G7 and Biden-Putin Summits Prove Fruitful?
I’ve been very busy lately. Between the back-to-back ransomware attacks and the release of our ransomware report highlighting the impact on business from ransomware attacks, I have been asked to share my ...
Biden-Putin Summit and Why Threat Actors Just Won’t Give it a Rest
On June 11, McDonald’s said in a message to its U.S. employees that it had discovered unauthorized activity on an internal security system. The burger chain responded by bringing on some external ...
