If you run a business—or manage IT for one—you are undoubtedly familiar with the ever-lengthening lead times for critical networking equipment like firewalls, routers, switches, and Wireless Access Points. And yes, you want to know when the shortage will end.
As the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to spread, the German government’s cyber authority, BSI, has issued a warning to citizens and governments, advising them to stop using antivirus products produced by Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company owned by Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian national. Separately, here in the US, the FCC took the significant step of declaring Kaspersky a national security threat. Kaspersky is the first cybersecurity firm to be labeled as such.
Web Developers are so used to it that don’t even think about it anymore: Testing a web site before launching it to the public requires “tricking” your browser into retrieving a page from a staging or development server instead of your live web server.
Why You Need Cyber Liability Insurance
What is cyber liability insurance? We’re glad you asked! Admittedly not the most entertaining of topics, cyber liability insurance is very, very important to your business.
“Statistics allow you to do exactly the wrong thing, but with 99 percent confidence.” Not sure if that’s how the saying goes, but perhaps it should.
The heart of any computer is its central processing unit (CPU). There’s a fair amount of mystery surrounding this part which does its work hidden away from our eyes.
If the Solar Winds disaster hasn’t put you in a mood to review your data security infrastructure, maybe nothing will, but here’s an additional thought or two.
Everything we do has an impact on the world around us and that definitely includes all of the technology around us. Many tech companies these days recognize the strain their devices or services put on the environment and work to offset it. See below for a roundup of some Earth Day reading we’ve been doing in the mac-tech office.
Head over to haveibeenpwned.com to find out! This website shines a spotlight on how the large amount of data breaches are affecting us personally. When you enter your email address the website will look through records on hacked accounts and points out which of them affect you. Being on the list means that the information stored on a hacked site (possibly including the password in use at the time of the hack) should be considered in the public domain.
Looking up your own information makes for a jarring experience: it shows that many of our personal accounts have been compromised, sometimes years ago. And if you are like many technology users who try to “keep it simple” by using the same password on multiple sites you will be shocked to realize that this practice may have possibly exposed additional information to anyone who can now try your (now public) logins on other sites you utilize.
