US Government “Initiates the widest empowerment and expansion of CISA through legislation since the SolarWinds incident”

The next step in critical infrastructure cybersecurity defense now begins as Joe Biden, like modern presidents before him, signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022 into law at the end of last month.

Sections 861-867 focus on Small Businesses, including committing the Department of Defense to analyze and review how their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) can work for small businesses.

2021 Sees More Scam Calls Than Ever Before

Almost a quarter of Americans (23%) have reported losing money to a phone scam in the past year, according to Truecaller Insights US Spam & Scam Report 2021. The actual percentage of people who have fallen for a scam, whether or not they've given money, is 31%.

Truecaller estimates that in total, Americans lost $29.8 billion, with an average of $502. Expanding, Truecaller says that 60% of these calls were robocalls instead of actual humans.

Movie Pirates Discover Their Systems Hijacked

While you may not be a pirate yourself, chances are you know someone who gets their entertainment from less-than-legal means. If this is being done on your network, you might be at risk too. It's no surprise that the top pirated movie of 2021 was the latest Spider-Man film, which has even broken pre-2020 records at the box office.