Defense Contractors Need to Worry about FCI

This week’s news includes:

If you don’t know what CPARS is, you are not alone. One the other hand, ignorance doesn’t give you a free pass. If you are a defense contractor, you need to spend five minutes and watch this one.

I don’t think this is what DoD is calling it, but in a public town hall meeting last week they changed the rules again. Defense contractors are just going to have to wait and see how this turns out. In the mean time, there is a very clear path that contractors need to take, so…

4,294,967,296 to 1 – It is NOT a Fair Fight Made in Beijing White House issues EO on digital assets BNP Paribas Blocks its Russian Team from Their Systems APC Patches Bugs That Could Allow a Hacker to Remotely do a HALT AND CATCH FIRE Microsoft Patches Yet Another Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Flaw…

This time, this is actually NOT click bait. Research shows that a third of all attacks exploit a known vulnerability for which there is a patch available but not installed. This time, it is believed that Russian hackers exploited this, stole data and shared it with the cartels. So that they could kill people that…

This week’s news items include: Beware when Superbowl ads use QR codes While India bans Chinese apps due to security, the U.S. … Hackers planted fake digital evidence on devices belonging to activists CISA releases list of free cybersecurity tools and services Google Chrome enhanced safe browsing mode Google issues emergency Chrome patch for active…