In my hometown of Los Ranchos, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, village residents include goats behind crumbling adobe walls and roosters crowing from the top of mobile homes. Riding horseback down the street is not uncommon. But, even the sleepiest of hamlets cannot...
The New York Office of the Attorney General said this week that it identified and notified 17 well-known online retailers, restaurant chains, and food delivery services that have been the victims of credential stuffing attacks. What Is Credential Stuffing? Credential...
Ahhhh, winter break….maybe you are cozied up at home with some time on your hands. Or, perhaps you have been left behind at the ski lodge. Here or there, how about taking in some riveting Risk Management literature and video? Our top five most-read studies and papers...
Here we go again: another holiday season, another exploit. It appears many IT, risk, and security professionals are going to have to wait to down their favorite holiday cheer as another exploit has brought tumult to the community. A Log4j vulnerability has bubbled to...
December seems to be a month fixated on fancy footwear. On Christmas Eve, some of us will “hang stockings by the chimney with care.” On December 4, a few of us celebrated the fringe awareness event “National Sock Day” commemorating “those rarest of socks that manage...
Cybersecurity firm Salt Labs recently discovered a “GraphQL API authorization vulnerability” in a large B2B financial technology platform. This vulnerability would give attackers ways to submit unauthorized transactions against customer accounts, harvest sensitive...
Since its founding in 1871 as a one-man business transporting goods by horse-drawn cart, Hellman Worldwide Logistics has grown into one of the largest international logistics providers. With high-performance offerings in the Airfreight, Seafreight, Road &...
“We’ve got a problem. Keep calm. We’re running as fast as we can…” Nordic Choice Hotels Group sent this message in an email to program members after its IT systems were hit by the Conti ransomware group on the evening of December 2. Nordic Choice Hotels is one of...
From Airbnb to Zillow, some of the internet’s most popular sites and services are built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s leading cloud computing provider. But, recent industry discussions point to an AWS vulnerability. Evolution of Amazon Web Services...
Facebook and its app family (including Instagram and WhatsApp) seemingly disappeared from the internet for over five hours on Monday. The outage impacted more than 3. 5 billion users worldwide who use Facebook and related platforms to connect with friends and family,...