CrowdStrike’s No Good, Very Bad Day and What It Means for Digital Security

The US House Homeland Security Committee has called for CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify about the company’s role in a widespread outage this month that caused the grounding of international flights, knocked banks and hospitals offline, and popularized a new term: Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). In July, [...]

Cyber Attacks on Healthcare Providers Illuminate a Disturbing Trend

A notable rise in cybersecurity incidents and data breaches concerning hospitals and healthcare providers showcases an unnerving trend. On December 24th, hackers began emailing the patients of Integris Health demanding $50 in bitcoin in order to stop their data from being published on to the dark web. In short, [...]

2024-01-26T13:28:19-06:00January 26th, 2024|Categories: FPOViews|Tags: , , , , |

On The Hook for a Cyber Attack

The Securities and Exchange Commission shook up the cybersecurity community this week when it announced it was charging not only SolarWinds but also its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with fraud for a 2020 cybersecurity incident.   The SEC alleges that the company and its CISO misrepresented its cybersecurity posture [...]

2023-11-03T11:12:04-05:00November 3rd, 2023|Categories: FPOViews|Tags: , , , , , , |