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Washington is Very Busy Before Jan 20th

It is interesting how “productive” the folks in DC can be when they want to. But I ask what have you been doing for the last four years. Getting my whining out of the way, there is a lot of stuff happening in this last week of the outgoing administration. The Federal Trade Commission handed […]

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Cybersecurity 2025 is no Better Than Cybersecurity 20**

We are definitely starting with a bang. First Apple patched a flaw that affects the system integrity of macOS. Using a third-party kernel extension Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in Apple’s System Integrity Protection, a feature that if functioning correctly, will reduce the risk from operations that affect system integrity. The flaw could enable hackers to […]

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The Consequences of Allowing Data Brokers to Sell Your Data

Data broker Gravy Analytics lost control of their location data database, affecting the privacy of millions. The hacker has published a “sample” of 30 million location records. Remember, 30 million represents just a sample; we don’t know who much data was stolen in total. The data released includes location data from fitness, health, dating, transit […]

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Security News Bites for January 10, 2025

New Orleans Truck Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Bans to Surveil French Quarter An advertising executive once said all publicity was good. I don’t think he understands terrorism. The FBI has revealed footage from the attacker’s Meta glasses that he took while going through the French Quarter on a bicycle. Not exactly the “use case” Meta wants […]

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Feds Launch IoT Cyber Trust Mark

Soon you will start seeing this VOLUNTARY cyber trust on connected IoT devices from baby monitors, smart appliances to cameras to all sorts of things. The FCC created this program and it is likely that responsible manufacturers will sign up for it. The FCC is outsourcing the administration of this program to Underwriters Laboratory (UL), […]

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A Gift From The Current Prez to the Next Prez

Ignoring posturing from the incoming President about the current President making life hard for him (countermanded by his chief of staff to be), the administration has revealed a lot about Chinese hacking over the last decade. #1 – China has hacked the US GOVERNMENT at least a dozen times since 2014. According to Metacurity’s research, […]

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