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U.S. Taking Steps to Prevent Cyber Attacks at a State Level
Happy Monday! Last week, a Texas School District lost $2.3 million to a phishing attack. The incident involved three transactions sent over the course of one month. The school district did not realize until after the third transaction that the bank account information...
DoD Names Chair for CMMC Program
Happy Monday! Last week, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) began during a cyber attack that hit Las Vegas. City officials have been actively working to determine where the attack began. As of now, officials are saying that the attack began with a malicious link in a...
Ryuk Ransomware and FDPL Website Hack
Happy Monday! Last week, a Ryuk ransomware attack took down the entire IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility. The United States Coast Guard stated that the cause of the attack most likely began with a phishing email. Operations...
New Cybersecurity Laws & Smartphone Location Data
Happy Monday, and happy (almost) New Year! In today's news, new cybersecurity laws, called "Insurance Data Security Laws," were just passed about a week ago, and will take effect in CT on October 1, 2020, and in NH on January 1, 2021. The laws will "affect insurance...
Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 End-Of-Life
Happy Monday and happy holidays! I've got some interesting news to start off this holiday week. First, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 after January 14th, 2020. These systems have reached their end-of-life...
CMMC Draft Version 0.7
Happy Monday! CMMC or the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification released draft version 0.7 last week. You can view the document here. The new draft includes levels 4 & 5 of the CMMC, as the previous draft versions did not. Last week, the city of Pensacola, FL was...
New CMMC Draft & Facebook Privacy Issues
Happy Monday! If you haven't seen yet, be sure to take a look at the CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) draft version 0.6 that was released last week. We're getting closer to 2020, which is when the final version is set to release, and audits are going...
DoD Names Chair for CMMC Program
Happy Monday! Last week, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) began during a cyber attack that hit Las Vegas. City officials have been actively working to determine where the attack began. As of now, officials are saying that the attack began with a malicious link in a...
Ryuk Ransomware and FDPL Website Hack
Happy Monday! Last week, a Ryuk ransomware attack took down the entire IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility. The United States Coast Guard stated that the cause of the attack most likely began with a phishing email. Operations...
New Cybersecurity Laws & Smartphone Location Data
Happy Monday, and happy (almost) New Year! In today's news, new cybersecurity laws, called "Insurance Data Security Laws," were just passed about a week ago, and will take effect in CT on October 1, 2020, and in NH on January 1, 2021. The laws will "affect insurance...
Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 End-Of-Life
Happy Monday and happy holidays! I've got some interesting news to start off this holiday week. First, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 after January 14th, 2020. These systems have reached their end-of-life...
CMMC Draft Version 0.7
Happy Monday! CMMC or the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification released draft version 0.7 last week. You can view the document here. The new draft includes levels 4 & 5 of the CMMC, as the previous draft versions did not. Last week, the city of Pensacola, FL was...
New CMMC Draft & Facebook Privacy Issues
Happy Monday! If you haven't seen yet, be sure to take a look at the CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) draft version 0.6 that was released last week. We're getting closer to 2020, which is when the final version is set to release, and audits are going...
