Category: Operations Security

February 8, 2019

According to leading supply chain analyst Louis Columbus, the biggest challenge facing the high tech industry in 2019 will be securing their supply chains. The challenge is that, as supply chains grow more complex, manufacturers may not be able to […]

January 30, 2019

A 21-member panel of elected officials, former U.S. Justice Department officers and nonprofit leaders convened last year by a University of Pittsburgh research institute to review Pennsylvania’s election systems released its final report Tuesday, recommending the state move as quickly […]

January 28, 2019

Facebook’s problems with election fraud have come to a head. And now, the company is promising a new plan for 2019. In a statement on Monday, Facebook said that it’s planning to expand its efforts at curbing election interference in […]

January 25, 2019

The clock is ticking for Windows 7, which goes out of support in January next year. That means no more features or security updates unless you pay Microsoft for additional support. There are still hundreds of millions of PCs still […]

January 22, 2019

Temporary patches are now available for all the three Windows zero-days that have been disclosed in the past month. A first temporary patch was released last week, and two others followed this week. The patches have been made available by […]

January 9, 2019

While cryptocurrency and blockchain have been Krazy-glued into the financial and technology industries for several years, many state governments are still figuring out how to regulate those technologies, and incorporate them into their own functions. Last week, New York Gov. […]

December 12, 2018

A New York City Council member plans to introduce legislation that would make the city’s relatively new cybersecurity bureau a permanent part of the municipal government. Ritchie Torres, who represents part of the Bronx, said Monday he wants to create […]

November 26, 2018

A broken US Postal Service API exposed from over 60 million users and allowed a researcher to pull millions of rows of data by sending wildcard requests to the server. The resulting security hole has been patched after repeated requests […]

November 23, 2018

Microsoft has released a new update for Outlook 2010 that should plug its critical security flaws without causing crashes. Microsoft earlier this week warned that the 64-bit version of the security update KB 4461529 from its November Patch Tuesday was […]

November 19, 2018

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen signaled that her newly minted cybersecurity agency would shift its focus to a number of longer term initiatives, such as mapping out national critical functions across different critical infrastructure sectors and changing culture and […]