Sp23 CYBR 332-51 Computer Security blog

 Though you'd think in this day and age as we progress forward with technology how much importance is stressed into cybersecurity, Healthcare organizations are still victims to cyberthreats today.  Its recently been reported that U.S. and South Korea health care organizations were attacked by ransomware.  These attacks were successful due to the fact that they were able to abuse out of date applications, unpatched flaws within apps, or just bad password policies.  This is why enforcing strict cybersecurity policies is always stressed.  Of course you can't catch everything but its definitely better than losing trust and business operations like this. You can read up more on the attack reports here: "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-ransomware-attacks-on-healthcare-fund-govt-operations/?&web_view=true"

     Reasons why people are still not excited about supporting IoT    Going into the future as technology improves, IoT has made life more easier and convenient both in the workplace and at home.  An example of its convivence, have you ever ordered something off a website and wondered when it would arrive at your desired pickup destination?  No more do you have to guess or rely on approximations when the tracking of packages is allowed.  The pleasure of knowing when and where you package is and when it should be arriving makes life better. As convenient and easier it has made life, it also comes with security risks.  Like mentioned before how you can track your package, what if I told you someone else can track your package and potentially might steal the package.  Its not easy to apply security to everything IoT comes with which leads to many vulnerabilities.   These are some articles that can enhance your knowl...

It has been awhile since the Biden administration announced a national cybersecurity strategy.  Critical cybersecurity issues have emerged recently in these past few years with high impacts have caused the Biden administration to actually make improving the nations cybersecurity a top priority.  It can be surprising how many still use simple passwords like "password123".  Which is why the article caught my attention as cybersecurity is starting to be treated with more importantly.  Certainly with the rise of internet connected devices growing in industrial companies, its very important to improve our cybersecurity concerns as more and more vulnerable devices are brought online.  We are still waiting on the final announcement on what the cybersecurity plan will entail from the Biden administration. You can read up more on the news here: https://www.cyberscoop.com/industrial-system-cybersecurity-default-passwords/

Good place for checking in on cyber security news For those looking to check out a good spot for finding quick and short interesting topics on cyber security, I'd recommend checking out the site "https://cyware.com/cyber-security-news-articles". You can check out the most recent cyber security events and of course filter out the many results as it covers news from around the world.   You can certainly find many articles related to cyber threats such as this article "https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/beware-tainted-vpns-being-used-to.html?&web_view=true". That article informs us that in Iran, their exists a VPN that spreads Surveillance ware.  Imagine that, with how things are going on nowadays, people always want privacy and most would feel uncomfortable with even their own internet providing knowing what they are doing everyday on the internet.  So the normally the recommend solution is to just use a VPN to prevent that from happening.  Now looks like you m...