Defense Contractors Need to Worry about FCI

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…

This week’s security news includes: NSA is investigating whether Russia was responsible for Viasat hack Clearview AI doing something useful for a change BitConnect founder indicted in $2.4 billion crypto Ponzi scheme Russia-Ukraine war makes semiconductor problem worse NSA and CISA release Kubernetes hardening guide DoJ makes good on threat to prosecute using False Claims…

This week’s security news includes: Country that bombs children (Russia) pleads for cyber treaty at UN President warns businesses to prepare for Russian cyberattacks Cisco Thousand Eyes Internet status dashboard HP reports vulnerabilities in 250 printer models Mesa County, Colorado Clerk and Deputy indicted on multiple felony counts related to election security Big Russian meat…

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.

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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…