Yesterday the president signed an EO planning a new National Resilience Strategy letting the states figure out how to protect themselves. This includes both cyber disasters and other physical disasters. The order says that state and local governments AND INDIVIDUALS play a “more active and significant role” in national resilience and preparedness. This comes after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Russians, in particular Pravda, which is Russian for truth, has created another interesting disinformation attack. The Russians figured out years ago that most Americans are not critical thinkers and if they can figure out a way to present fake information long enough, many people will believe it. For the last several election cycles, their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Laws are interesting. You may remember a few years ago when the FCC started fining telecom companies for allowing spam phone calls. Almost overnight the companies were able to flag “suspicious” or “suspected spam” calls. Money talks. In Australia, a new law makes banks, social media and telecom carriers LIABLE for scams. The law, called […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk’s Grok AI Says 75%-85% Probability That Trump is a Russian Asset Some of you are probably old enough to remember Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”. Grok is like that, apparently. Responding to a prompt from a journalist, Grok, the Maximally Truth Seeking AI, according to Musk, says that there is a 75% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hard coded secrets are things like passwords and API keys that are hard coded into “apps” for anyone to find. Generally considered a bad thing. 🙂 Cybernews researched more than 150,000 iOS apps and found more than 815,000 secrets. This includes thousands that are sensitive. Secrets that could lead to breaches. Now that this information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Those of you who regularly read this blog know that I am not a friend of Texas AG Ken Paxton but in this case I say GO FOR IT! In December he opened investigations into 15 technology companies regarding their privacy and safety practices for minors, using the SCOPE law and the Texas Data Privacy […]
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