Defense Contractors Need to Worry about FCI

While far from perfect, we have made a lot of progress in protecting, especially corporate users, from email scams. The evidence is that it is far from perfect, but it is on everyone’s radar. Even though we have not fully protected ourselves from email scams, it is getting harder for the scammers to pull off….

This week’s news includes:

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…

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.

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…

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