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This week in SolarWinds: Feb 19 2021

The US government has updated their numbers on the incident, citing 9 federal agencies and about 100 private companies compromised.     This number is lower than…

Fifth and Sixth Generation Cyberattacks data

The new landscape has generated a surge of sophisticated fifth-generation cyberattacks For 72% of people responding to Snow Software for its 2021 IT Priorities Report,…

This Week in SolarWinds: Feb 12

This week in SolarWinds. Microsoft has made it clear its systems were not used for the SolarWinds breach.      They have clarified that they believe it…

Water plant breached in Florida

I’m really longing for the days when the hacker stories were just ransomware.    Widely reported today, a water treatment plant in Florida was breached last…

2FA in Open Source

While I’m on the security beat… the Linux Foundation looked into the use of two factor authentication by developers in open source projects.  The results……

This Week in SolarWinds: Feb 5

In case you missed the kickoff this week, it’s been discovered that 30% of those breached did not run SolarWinds products. Trustwave researchers have found…

More MacOS data points

Remember how I talked about macOS penetration being up?   That was last weeks big data set, with IDC saying it’s now 23% of enterprises. Microsoft…

Why are we so bad with zero days?

New research from Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google.  Its far to easy for hackers to use those zero-day exploits, because tech companies aren’t…