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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dell-investigates-data-breach-claims-after-hacker-leaks-employee-info/amp/
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The threat actor alleged to hold 20 GB of data, including source code, credentials, private keys, API keys, employee data, T-Mobile virtual machine logs, documents, and more, which was leaked for free.
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Are any of the TCG members including Dell, government and critical industries going to use built-in (TPM and SED) standards based hardware security like Wave’s or do these organizations want to go up in data breach flames AND not have their data, devices and networks secured? Oh that’s right, use Crowdstrike because Jim Cramer told you so!!!
As an add on to my last post…. One thing the government could do is supply the soldiers with secure Samsung phones that are enabled with Wave, the TPM mobile and TEE with Starlink and give the soldiers security and be able to be warned of drones since the phone has Starlink!! That way the soldiers wouldn’t become dizzy weaklings with HoloLens headsets!! And the rest of the government could be secured as well with Trusted Computing/Wave at a lower cost than Microsoft’s HoloLens Project!! I think Steven K Sprague and Elon Musk could help with that greatly as well as Samsung Mobile!!
https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-microsoft-military-headset/
Mr. ‘Luckey’ is trying to save Microsoft’s $21 billion contract with the government. Yeah, turning soldiers into dizzy, video game playing weaklings is what we should have defending this country!!! Why not secure ALL our government employees and agencies with Trusted Computin/Wave at much less than $21 billion?! The rest of the money could go for our vets and to feed the
homeless!!!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/18/russian-election-interference-microsoft-report/75277862007/
Dear Ms. Harris, Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump,
If we were using the TPM as a form of authentication, we could keep the bad actors from posting phoney videos on ‘X’ and Facebook!! It would be like having a driver’s license on the internet!! I think that making that a part of October cybersecurity Awareness Month OR earlier would be a great idea!! Why not have the TCG, Wave, X, Facebook help with getting TPMs activated and as a means of device authentication so we don’t have all this crap on the internet and then we have a more fair election? I don’t think posting crap is good for freedom of speech!! Freedom of speech has gotten way out of hand and the TPM could make it a privilege for people to post on the internet so those that abuse X and Facebook get that privilege taken away!! JMO
Question for Steven Sprague: Given that you worked for Wave for 14 years, and people looked up to your prowess in Wave, why are you very rarely posting anything to help ESW/Wave? I think SPRAGUE can help Wave succeed!! And the same for Bill Solms and anybody who worked for Wave and the old Wavoids?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/construction-firms-breached-in-brute-force-attacks-on-accounting-software/amp/
Wouldn’t it be smart and fair to implement a law where when a company hasn’t used MFA that has built in hardware based security (ie. Wave) using the TPM as a means of authentication (immune to malware attacks), and they now report a data breach or cyberattack under SEC rules that they get downgraded by Moody’s, Fitch or S&P whether the company says it was material or not?! I think Kamala has to start kicking some ass!!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zscaler-crowdstrike-announce-ai-zero-160200460.html
Wow, there are a lot of buzzwords in this article…. More ‘security’ piling up using a ‘holistic’ and ‘synergistic’ approach!! Get the job done with Wave!!!
https://fedscoop.com/video/doe-cio-ann-dunkin-on-how-zero-trust-architectures-are-strengthening-cybersecurity/
Hmmmmm…. “Zero trust is a buzzword”??? 20+ Years for ‘Trusted Computing’!! and those aren’t buzzwords!!! SPRAGUE CAN; SOLMS CAN!!!
https://www.dpalliance.org.uk/people/directors/lord-renwick/ Methinks, this man Lord Renwick used to work for Wave and used to champion their technologies! It’s too bad he passed, but maybe some who knew him will have his Wave torch lit during these meetings!!! Hope you have a happy day and remember: SPRAGUE CAN!!! I wouldn’t be surprised if after Toyota’s cyber snafu that Mr. Musk upgrades his cars to have SEDs and have Wave MFA in Texas so Tesla doesn’t get hacked!! He is making some enemies so I think Trusted Computing AND WAVE would be REALLY GOOD for Tesla!! God bless!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/09/14/microsoft-warns-1-billion-windows-10-users-new-windows-11-upgrade-confirmed/
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All of which highlights the real challenge for the 70% of Windows users yet to make the leap to Windows 11—replacing expensive hardware with no secondary market to push old hardware into. Canalys calculates that this hyper-scale refresh would result in “roughly a fifth of devices becom[ing] e-waste due to incompatibility with the Windows 11 OS. This equates to 240 million PCs. If these were all folded laptops, stacked one on top of another, they would make a pile 600km taller than the moon.”
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If Microsoft partnered with Wave on the 70% of the computers that don’t need upgrades to Windows 11 there wouldn’t be all this angst toward Microsoft, they’d have better security for older Windows machines with TPMs activated and Microsoft would be seen as much more environmentally motivated in having not forced upgrades!! Many older enterprise computers may need upgrading to do away with inferior Bitlocker so that organizations could have SEDs which are better so canning Bitlocker and using Wave security could help Microsoft in five ways: smarter upgrades, money to manage SEDs (shared with Wave), always on hardware encryption, having whole company networks secured with 100% of TPMs activated and Microsoft would be viewed as a more environmentally friendly company!!! If Microsoft wants to continue to FORCE upgrades to Windows 11 then why wouldn’t Wave work solely for the time being with Intel Vpro?? Wave, Intel and Microsoft could work as a T.E.A.M!! Together Everyone Achieves More!!
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2024/09/cisa-review-low-hanging-cyber-lapses-plague-critical-infrastructure/
Gee Wally, what have we been doing with strategy called zero trust?? Gosh Beav, I know a company that can prevent this bad stuff from happening with what’s called Trusted Computing! Gee Wally that sounds great!! Why aren’t we really using it now? Well Beav when people (like the President) heard about zero trust he probably thought ‘What a concept!’! Gee Wally, isn’t zero trust really complicated to make work and how much does it cost? Golly Beav, I don’t really know, but I think with all the parts to it, it could get pretty expensive and the Air Force found it too hard for them!! Gee Wally, Trusted Computing and Wave are simpler and gets the job done!! Do you think the government is dumb or ignorant? Gosh Beav, the Air Force and all the companies that support the Trusted Computing with two built in hardware security standards probably think so!! Wally, who is Peter Sprague and Steven Sprague? Beav, These are very smart men who have a lot of patents and inventions in their family!! Peter went to YALE and I believe he ran against Ed Koch for mayor as a Republican and almost won!! He was the CEO of National Semiconductor and took them off the pink sheets and they flourished!! He was behind the first 200 MPH car while CEO at Aston Martin!! I think Steven is smart like his father Peter Sprague!! Gee Wally, then why don’t ESW/Wave, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris listen to them! Golly Beav, I don’t really know! Maybe we just want to pay a lot for security that doesn’t work so companies can keep selling more security!!
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3905461/dod-hosts-international-exchange-on-shaping-cybersecurity-workforce/
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I think we need to take it seriously [and] take that opportunity to talk to smart people from outside our own little sphere," he said. "The world has a lot to offer."
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Talk to Steven K Sprague and Bill Solms about only allowing known devices on the DOD contractors and DOD network!! Talk to these two smart guys!! They CAN!!! SPRAGUE CAN!!
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-hack-us-defense-contractor-ukraine-atacms-1952687
Didn’t Lockheed Martin use or possibly still uses RSA Securid? Wave MFA beat the competition years ago when they did extensive testing with a large financial services bank!! And the competition probably included Securid!! So why isn’t ESW/Wave enabling MANY more companies to use its outstanding MFA?? Do we just keep listening to the other cybersecurity companies’ rhetoric that we are improving our product and we’ll be using AI?? Fortinet and Lockheed Martin are just BIG wake up calls that this country needs Wave security!!!
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-working-increase-android-capabilities-in-vehicles/amp/
Just think of the advantages that a Samsung/Android/Wave phone would have with Teslas!! Or with Wave’s security Elon wouldn’t have to lay out all that capital for a Tesla phone and he could have a subscription based model with Starlink/Tesla/Samsung/Android/Wave!! The android phones could be crème de la crème Trusted phones!! Why would you want to spend $2800.00 on Huawei when you could have this Trusted phone!! (A much better value!). And who knows what the prices of Apple phones are going to do after JD Vance’s comments!! Samsung just settled their strike so they maybe are happier than the Foxconn/Apple ‘slave’ workers!!
Add on to that last post…. If I were consulting with Wave, I would tell Wave/ESW to get on the horn right away with Pat Gelsinger about Vpro and Wave, call Microsoft and have them get rid of Bitlocker and use Wave with their SED management and share the revenue, call Mastercard about getting a real foundation of trust with Wave, and call Joe Biden and make a STRONG suggestion to him that our U.S. companies need to have a real foundation of trust in USING (activating TPMs and SEDs) trusted computing and Wave!! But I am just a concerned unemployed U.S. citizen who wants America to have better security (Wave), and have Wave make a comeback which I think it justly deserves!! SKS made trusted computing suggestions years ago to the Obama White House, but some of that (I think) got buried in the complicated NIST/government documents!! Well, Obama (I think) was trying to get trusted computing off the ground, but that didn’t really happen!! The TCG activated standards have been proven for many years!! Why are we not using them and continuing on with the current cybersecurity and AI and continue to have all this ransomware and data breaches!! Enough is enough!! Time for Wave!! Methinks and I have put our hearts into seeing that Wave and America and the UK and the world justly succeed at Wave making the work for hackers so much harder that they don’t bother to hack anymore!! It would be nice to be rewarded for our hard work!! But I’ll leave that up to the powers to be and God!!!
https://investor.mastercard.com/investor-news/investor-news-details/2024/Mastercard-Invests-in-Continued-Defense-of-Global-Digital-Economy-With-Acquisition-of-Recorded-Future/default.aspx
If Mastercard has $2.65 billion on investing in Recorded future which probably doesn’t use known devices like Wave does, why don’t they use Wave which could really protect them at a fraction of that $2.65 billion!! Sorry, but I think there are a lot of ignorant companies that don’t use Wave!!!
And to add to the last post, why do a lot of ICE cars shut off now at stop lights? So we don’t have more pollution, why not get a Tesla instead in the future and have no emmissions altogether!! I mean having your car turning on and off for that doesn’t make much sense!!! Isn’t that just more wear and tear on your car?? As you can tell, I like Teslas!! Thank you Tesla for building a car that gave my Dad so much excitement near the end of his life!! Note: I do not work for Tesla, but I am a small shareholder!! Back to Wave posts soon!! Please read my Wave posts!! I think they are pretty good along with Methinks posts too!!
I had an interesting experience when I pulled into a parking space at a Dunkin Donuts today with my Subaru!! It’s a good car, but when I was talking to my friend I didn’t put the car into park and I almost hit a pole that was protecting the DD building!! At the last second I realized the car was still coasting and but for the grace of God I hit the brake at the last second and just missed having a fender bender!! I wonder how many times this has happened to people in ICE (internal Combustion Engine) cars?? This potential accident would not happen in a Tesla!!! I’ve driven my sister’s 2019 Model 3 so I know that to be true!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INGENUITY TESLA!!!
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2024/09/pentagons-first-cyber-policy-chief-targets-better-metrics-for-cybersecurity-progress/?readmore=1
Why doesn’t the Pentagon do a quick compare with Wave and TPM enabled computers (known devices with Wave Endpoint monitor vs. the competition to see what white hackers can get to sensitive data?? The custom malware or phishing that gets through Crowdstrike, Microsoft and Palo Alto security would have a much tougher time getting through Wave’s defenses!! The trick is Microsoft doesn’t protect older computers so Wave protects the full fleet of computers!! If Wave was working with Intel Vpro, the Pentagon and critical industries could have much better security now and into the future!! SKS was just ahead of his time and while the existing cybersecurity companies may stop a lot of attacks, do they stop the sneaky attacks like Wave can??? NOT!!! Some things were made better in the old days, just like with Wave…Wave’s technology maybe older, but it’s simpler and better security now than a LOT of the security now!!
https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-new-keylogger-uses-microsoft-powershell-scripts-to-quietly-steal-sensitive-information-here-s-how-to-protect-your-data
If only we were using the TPM as a second factor of authentication in Windows as there would be no keystrokes to record and access sensitive information!! Use Wave MFA!! I wonder if that will be discussed at the Microsoft/Crowdstrike meeting tomorrow??!!
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-a-tpm-and-why-does-windows-11-require-one/
If Microsoft is requiring a TPM in Windows 11, and TPMs are in almost all business computers then why aren’t we activating them (at least in organizations)? Again, considering the results of our cybersecurity in our country, it makes absolutely no sense!! Well that might make sense to Microsoft since their incentive is to have everyone upgrade to Windows 11 so they can make more money, but not necessarily get the U.S. protected like it should be!! Maybe that is why Microsoft and the TCG are not leading the charge to get TPMs activated!!!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-and-allies-link-russian-military-hackers-behind-critical-infrastructure-attacks-to-gru-unit-29155/amp/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/car-rental-giant-avis-data-breach-impacts-over-299-000-customers/amp/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-use-new-data-theft-malware-in-govt-attacks/amp/
Are we ever going to learn that Wave and Trusted Computing get the job of protecting this country and companies like Avis ‘done’??!! Is there anybody in charge that can protect our country?? Going without mandating the TCG standards being activated just makes absolutely NO SENSE!!
https://nypost.com/2024/09/09/business/china-poised-to-embed-communist-party-spies-inside-us-firms-including-microsoft-critics-warn/
What if Chinese employees had to have Chinese computers (Ie. Lenovo) and only these computers in the company network (ie, Micosoft Chinese network) had to have these TPMs recognized by that Chinese network that way only the Chinese would have access to the Microsoft Chinese network so they couldn’t access the sensitive data on the American Microsoft network because they would be an unknown device on the American network. Known devices on split Chinese and American networks for Microsoft and other multinationals! And China could do the same kind of thing for Huawei and Chinese companies operating here!! Known devices and Wave could be good for both countries!!!
https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/work-groups/regional-forums/greater-china/
I don’t know what all this means, but if China uses Trusted Computing and Wave before the U.S. does then their devices, networks, and data will be truly protected and the U.S. may be at a big disadvantage in the cyber realm!! I hope our country is getting trusted computing and Wave soon!!
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/09/how-popular-malware-is-stealing-credentials-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/amp/
If we were only using Wave’s MFA with the Trusted Platform Module as a means of authentication, we wouldn’t be having the kinds of problems in the article and Wave could detect this sneaky malware with Wave Endpoint Monitor!! Why aren’t we using Wave in the government?? Wave is a small, American company that offers better security!! I thought Kamala liked to support small businesses!! With the Microsoft HoloLens Army contract (21 billion) and all the wasted money on Microsoft’s cybersecurity, well it looks like the government favors BIG businesses like Microsoft over Wave which has better and simpler security!! Where is the smartness and fairness??
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/09/06/ios-18-new-iphone-security-and-privacy-features-arriving-in-days/
Wouldn’t it be cool if Samsung used better security with Wave with the TPM mobile and TEE rather than Apple’s IOS18 ‘gold’ standard security? I think if Samsung did that, they could run laps around Apple!!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexvakulov/2024/09/05/how-hackers-bypass-mfa-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
The other MFA options like Okta, Securid, Yubikey, and Cisco Duo had problems that should have highly motivated organizations to switch to Wave MFA, and Microsoft’s cybersecurity is just too complicated and quite frankly needs Wave to protect organizations’ full fleet of devices! Looks like Kamala should be kicking these CEOs and BODs in the nuts/butts so they make the smart choice by using Wave MFA and Wave solutions!!
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2446221/new-voldemort-malware-infects-by-disguising-itself-to-go-undetected.html
Question: would you rather have Microsoft Defender, Norton/Symantec or Wave Endpoint Monitor to catch this sneaky malware?? Wave/ESW might be a small company, but they have better security!!!
https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cybersecurity-best-practices/executive-order-strengthening-cybersecurity-federal-networks-and-critical-infrastructure
I don’t believe the CISA document that the ‘Trump team’ came up with says anything about Trusted Computing!! Just think of where we would be today if our country had embraced Trusted Computing back in 2017!! We probably wouldn’t have had all these cyber attacks and data breaches!! We just haven’t been thinking with our thinking caps on!! I think it’s time Kamala put an end to the lousy cybersecurity results and embraced Trusted Computing!! So far Biden and Trump didn’t get the job we needed done in cybersecurity!! Wave and Trusted Computing get the job done!! Zero trust is just more of the same old same old ineffective hard to do and a lot of waste!! I believe that Kamala can straighten out the U.S.’s course first while the rest of the world makes up their mind on activating Trusted Computing!! Kamala can be a real leader by embracing Trusted Computing and supporting the TCG and Wave as the leader!!
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/09/major-agencies-are-close-meeting-september-zero-trust-deadline-federal-cio-says/399270/?oref=ng-homepage-river
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-strategy-zero-trust-risks/
Don’t you have to wonder who has their thinking cap on when you read about the Air Force giving up on Zero trust and now the federal cio saying that major agencies are close to meeting the deadlines zero trust deadlines!! Get Trump in there and fire the CIO and these nincompoops!! Kamala, they are really making you look bad especially when you have the top tech companies of this world supporting the TCG and trusted computing and your administration is supporting the thinking of zero trust!!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna169472
Hello Methinks, I think it would be smart if Elon used TPMs for device authentication so things like this don’t happen to Trump, Trump’s kids, to himself, and others on the ‘X’ platform!! With activated TPMs (Trusted Platform Modules) Elon could also have a platform without all the garbage posts from bots!! I’m sure Wave and ‘skswave’ could help him with that!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taiwan-cracks-down-on-corporate-espionage-raids-30-chinese-firms/ar-AA1pYX8d
It would help Taiwan if their networks, data and devices were protected with activated TPMs, SEDs and Wave!!! The Chinese are probably having an easy time hacking Taiwan!!
https://www.securityweek.com/intel-responds-to-sgx-hacking-research/amp/
Intel should be using Wave to activate and manage the TPM and SED (built-in hardware security) on its platform rather than SGX after reading this article!! IMO.
https://www.consulting.us/news/amp/11138/booz-allen-wins-421-cybersecurity-contract-with-federal-government
How about keeping hackers off the network altogether with Wave!! PwC which at one point owned Booz Allen and successfully used 2FA with PwC!! You would think that either Booz Allen or PwC would roll out Wave solutions with this new contract for governments and activate TPMs!! I hope Kamala, Jen Easterly or Anne Neuberger are in touch with Booz Allen so the U.S. government can turn on TPMs at scale!! With 911 coming up i think we should be turning all our government TPMs (built in) and critical industries on with Wave at scale and using Wave MFA before something really bad happens!! Hopefully that’s what we are doing!! We can always upgrade with Windows 12, Internet Vpro, with Wave solutions and AI at a later date, but I think turning on the existing TPMs and using Wave MFA now is really important!! The other MFA in the market is not TCG and ICO standards based!! Wave has proven MFA!!!!!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/admins-of-mfa-bypass-service-plead-guilty-to-fraud/amp/
If the TPM were used, the criminals would need to have your phone or computer to try to hack it, unlike the OTP that were obtained in this article!! Maybe other countries will listen to Wave and SKS about securing bank accounts and their employees with standards based built in hardware with Wave!!! C’mon Kamala, you have a chance with Wave leading the way! The other ways have proven unsuccessful for a lot of years!! If you justifiably awarded Wave some government contracts to protect your data, devices and networks that money could go right into helping Wave protect the banks and its customers and the healthcare system!! Wave, Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Lenovo, HP and the rest of the TCG should all be working together to activate and manage the hardware security (TPMs and SEDs) that they had built in to our infrastructure at a cost of billions!! Why not use it???
Doing well thanks!! Sometimes I feel like a consultant for Wave working for free, but I think you and I want to see the shareholders get their due by launching Wave in a BIG WAY so our country and the world can make these hacker’s lives WAY harder!! I’m out on ‘X’ posting under Oley and I’m seen on skswave a lot, but I think I’ve given IHUB a lot of free advertising there as I like to use both X and Ihub!! If Steven would really put his focus on helping Wave turn on all the TPMs our critical industries would be a lot more secure rather than protecting crypto!! I think it’s time he gave up on that!! He likes challenges (and securing crypto is a real challenge, but I think it’s a lost cause) and coming up with new ideas and collaborating with big companies!! Maybe he should be Chief Strategic Officer and Chief Technology Officer(maybe he is too nice to be CEO) who also show these leaders of the world what they are missing in Wave!! HE COULD HAVE SUCH A HUGELY POSITIVE IMPACT ON ESW/WAVE if they let him!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/08/31/your-country-needs-you-report-hackers-now-us-government-says/
This system would not even have to be in service if we were turning on our TPMs and using Wave solutions!! Obviously our existing cybersecurity is so bad that there is the assumption of cyber incidents!! Invest in prevention that gets the job done!! Invest in Wave!! C’mon Biden and Kamala take a break from the campaign trail for a day and smartly talk to Steven K. Sprague and Bill Solms(who used to work for Microsoft) and REALLY put Trusted Computing to work by rolling out Trusted Computing (activating TPMs and SEDs with Wave software) so our country finally has PEACE OF MIND in the cyber realm!!!