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Apple Didn’t Get It Quite Right – Again

Parental controls are generally a good thing. Except when it blocks the wrong sites and lets the bad sites  through. So what is Apple doing in this case? Sites that are blocked: Scarleteen and O.school, which are sex education sites and Teen Vogue. Sites that are OK: The Daily Stormer, a neo-nazi site that publishes […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending October 19, 2018

Austria Issues First GDPR Fine; Has 115 Fine Proceeding In Q Austria has issued its first GDPR fine.  4,800 Euros for having a security camera that covers the sidewalk (a no-no) without warning people that they are under surveillance.  Welcome to GDPR.  In the first 100 days of GDPR,  they have 115 fine proceedings in […]

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SEC Investigates Companies That Send Wires to Scammers

You have probably heard about Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks where scammers pose as company executives and ask the accounting department to wire money to them. The FBI says this is highly effective and big business.  To the tune of $5 billion in losses since 2013. In fact the SEC discovered that 9 publicly traded […]

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The End of Fax Machines? Well Maybe. Why? Insecurity!

Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool.  She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending Oct. 12, 2018

Data Aggregator Apollo Loses Data on 200 Million Apollo’s business model is to aggregate both publicly available data and company private data to build profiles used to market to people. Apollo’s 212 million contacts, 10 million companies and 9 billion data points are now public.  In addition to names and email addresses, the company also […]

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