Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a multibillion-dollar threat, but it's evolving, with the FBI and other federal agencies warning that cybercriminals have started using spoofed emails to steal shipments of physical goods – in this case, food. Along with the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal …
I doubt companies that small would qualify as critical infra. Really, who would let such a small business become so important?
No doubt many small and tiny businesses would _like_ to be so valued, but they're not likely to effectively compete with bigger ones.
Seems like more of a marketing move by CloudFlare to me.
I doubt companies that small would qualify as critical infra.
I guess it depends on how it's counted. We were 'critical infrastructure' during part of the COVID lockdown -- the part where the carefully constructed definitions were in use -- and then not 'critical infrastructure' in the later part of the lockdown, when the categories were defined by a press release from a minister's office.
Being small, we were only critical for a small number of customers -- off-grid residential, the odd telecom tower, bits of railway infrastructure :)
In any case being suitable for use with the odd remote community or railway system, the equipment is designed not to fail, and we go from one century to the next without any actual critical incidents.
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