Posts by: Tixzy_Admin
Executive News Roundup – January 14, 2018
In the continuing saga of Meltdown and Spectre, this week, AMD acknowledged that its processors are susceptible to variants of these vulnerabilities. Apple released patches for Spectre for both mobile and laptops devices. Amazon provided an update about it’s progress with the issue….
Executive News Roundup – February 18, 2018
Did you all watch the Olympics? Which event was your favorite? On the 9th, right before the opening ceremony, the official Pyeongchang 2018 site stopped working and people attending could not get their tickets. This was confirmed by the…
Executive News Roundup – February 11, 2018
Despite the falling value of cryptocurrencies, the amount of cryptocurrency mining malware has gone up. The Decatur County General Hospital may be one of the first healthcare providers in the US hit with cryptocurrency malware. Cryptocurrency mining malware can even…
Executive News Roundup – February 4, 2018
All companies and organizations are required to disclose breaches and the numbers are a lot higher than ever according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center. Breaches now are even mainstream entertainment plots. In healthcare, most breaches were hacking/IT…
Executive News Roundup – January 28, 2018
As breaches continue to pile up, so do the lawsuits in various industries such as legal and healthcare. Phishing continues to be a popular attack vector using old techniques. And in the face of high-profile breaches, several states are either…
Executive News Roundup – January 21, 2018
Following last week’s reports about the vulnerabilities in the Adhaar Identification system used in India, an additional layer of security is being rolled out. There is speculation that ransomware is on the rise in healthcare because healthcare providers are willing…
Executive News Roundup – January 7, 2018
Happy New Year to all our readers. We start off the new year on an interesting note. If you use a computer and don’t live under a rock, you have probably been inundated by news…
Executive News Roundup – July 2, 2017
One measure of the popularity of a platform is when security researches and cyber criminals begin to release tools and exploits. Kaspersky Lab recently blogged about experiments with the Raspberry PI. And there are even reports…
Executive News Roundup – June 11, 2017
Tensions in the middle intensify as Qatar is isolated from its neigbours following a breach where fake news was inserted into Qatari official news outlets. Even as the Mary Meeker Annual Internet Trend report predicted that ad block usage would…
Executive News Roundup – June 04, 2017
This week, we saw one of the more damaging security breaches of popular third-party authentication vendor, Onelogin reported that a set of their AWS keys had been compromised and customer credentials stolen. In an email from OneLogin to…