Raw Thoughts
More Real-World Impact: Hospitals Divert Due to Ransomware
In another "real-world impact" story: Hospitals in multiple states are impacted by a ransomware attack against their parent company, Ardent Health. Ardent operates 37 healthcare facilities across the United States. On and after Thanksgiving, multiple local news...
US Housing Market Hit by Threat Actors
Two recent incidents have caught my attention, and they're impacting the housing market in a real way at this stage. Mr. Cooper is a loan servicer that claims to have over 4.3 million customers. They experienced an attack around Halloween. And, more recently,...
Jeffco Incident – I Found Some Data
This is an update to my story on the Jeffco Schools incident. Please refer to my "we are human" statement on that post. Defenders: We still see you, and we still empathize with what you're going through right now. This story will likely develop further, and material...
School Cybersecurity – What can we do?
In my last article, I covered the concerning trend of cyber-attacks aimed at K12 school districts. I've been keeping that up to date as best I can, so check there for the updates I've shared. To the point of this article, we saw Clark County and now Jeffco Schools get...
Another School District Targeted – This one Hits Close
Before we dive in, I want to make something clear. Right now, there are a lot of incident responders dealing with these attacks on education. These people went to bed as defenders and woke up as incident...
Let’s Talk About the Cloudflare Outage
Over the last couple of days, Cloudflare suffered a significant outage across its control plane and analytics environments. First things first: no, I'm not leaving Cloudflare over this. I've been a Cloudflare user for a long time, since the early days. Back when 12-...
Normalize Asynchronous Collaboration
There seems to be a rather unfortunate crusade against work from home and even hybrid work. There's a number of predicted problems that are driving this type of behavior from leaders. The obvious one being an 'old school' understanding of how work is done, or even...
AI is not a Red Pill
Listen, I'm just as excited about artificial intelligence as everyone else. However, like with many things, I am firmly in the camp of "proceed with caution." AI is and will continue to power a lot of amazing things, but it also continues to have a lot of unknowns I...
Your Healthcare Provider may be Failing You
In the first half of 2023, an estimated 39 million people were impacted by 295 data breaches, in the US alone. This is a stupidly staggering number, and it just shouldn't be the case. As 'clickbait' as the title of this post may seem, I think it's true. When I go to...
