5 Things (Or So) This Week In Identity Security And Skills

August 24th, 2021

Just last week, we discussed attacks and scans on Microsoft exchange servers on the rise.

This week, it's only gotten worse as new separate vulnerabilities allow attackers to access email without authentication.

And also, to make matters worse for exchange servers, a new type of ransomware is capable of avoiding detection.

Perhaps it's no surprise then that the big tech giants, with Microsoft in front, have quadrupled their projected cybersecurity spending over the next few years.

Our election system seems to be on a collision course with a hard CyberSecurity reality check. If it wasn't a real threat in 2020, experts say it is now.

With all the Money flowing, someone has to be cashing in, and it's not always the bad guys.

Leave it to the Minecraft pre-teen generation to figure out how to ditch the Norman Rockwell paper routes of old for 6 figure salaries in 2021.

Finally, we take a break from our creepy bonuses to highlight something strange in our food industry.

We've all expected some strange things to be around the corner in human gene splicing.

But I, for one, never saw the human/potato coming.

Be Careful Out There!