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HMG CISO Executive Leadership Summit

I am looking forward to speaking at the upcoming HMGLive CISO executive leadership event! I encourage all cybersecurity leaders to attend and interact. This is how we build teamwork, communicate challenges, and share best practices.   Registration i...

Matthew Rosenquist 1 minute read 20 Feb 2021 1 comment $1.38

Building Smart Cities of the Future Takes a Team of Experts

Today I am honored to join the World Smart Cities Economic Development Commission Advisory Board of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), a partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), to support job growth, dig...

Matthew Rosenquist 1 minute read 18 Feb 2021 14 comments $1.93

V1.11 Release - Improved Keycard Support & More

The team continues to make progress in improving Status and bringing fun, sticky, private, secure communication. In a relatively small release, 1.11 allows anyone with an existing Status account to migrate their keys onto a Keycard as well as Giphy s...

Status Community Updates 1 minute read 18 Feb 2021 0 comments $1.42

More Supply-Chain Cyberattacks are in the Wind

It appears France is the main victim for this recent attack which has several uncanny similarities to the SolarWinds exploitation that exposed thousands of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure organizations, and major businesses.  Let m...

Matthew Rosenquist 1 minute read 17 Feb 2021 0 comments $2.51

Security?

Yesterday for lunch I went on a walk around the Capitol for the first time since all of the walls went up around it. For those of you who do not know there are now two layers of unscalable fencing surrounding the area. The first wall or line of it wa...

Cje95 1 minute read 13 Feb 2021 1 comment $0.11

CBDC: Securing the Immutable Ledger

There are two things at odds in developing a secure, immutable ledger of transactions for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).  You want the immutability and security of decentralized cryptocurrencies, but you also want the centralized control of...

Craig Borysowich 6 minute read 12 Feb 2021 0 comments $0.13

Amplify Exchange Scam

For the first time, I believe I have just been made a victim of crypto fraud. I purchased some coins for a couple of hundred pounds about a year ago from amplifyexchange.com, and thought I would transfer them from the exchange as they no longer had a...

Michael_Brown 1 minute read 10 Feb 2021 0 comments $0.03

Safety Risks Rise Due to Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks

The recent attempt by malicious hackers to poison a Florida city water supply, highlights the public risks and exposure of critical infrastructures.  Luckily, this incident was detected by an observant technician and mitigated before people were hur...

Matthew Rosenquist 1 minute read 9 Feb 2021 1 comment $0.15

Chromium patch time

[Browser Patch Time] If you are running on a Chromium based Browser you may want to ensure that you are on at least v87.0.4280.117 which patches a new attack variant on Network Address Translation (NAT) Slipstreaming vulnerability that is yet another...

ircrp 1 minute read 1 Feb 2021 1 comment $0.11

Disrupted but Not Dead – Law Enforcement Scores a Big Win Against EMOTET Botnet

Congrats to the multinational authorities who collaborated to defang the infrastructure of EMOTET, a hugely successful cybercriminal malware platform. Unfortunately, this win may be short-lived. The attackers behind EMOTET have shown great resilienc...

Matthew Rosenquist 1 minute read 30 Jan 2021 0 comments $0.20