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Facebook 0, Apple 1; Google is Collateral Damage

You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect.  The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]

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Do You Have Cyber-Risk Insurance? Enough?

A recent study estimates that a coordinated global cyber attack (think Wannacry, but not geographically bounded) could cause economic damages of between $85 billion and $193 billion. The investigation was conducted by Lloyds of London and Aon Insurance as a “stress test” of the industry. Claims would likely include everything from business interruption to incident […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 25, 2019

Oklahoma Government Data Left Unprotected The Oklahoma Department of Securities left data going back to at least 1999 unprotected online.  Data exposed included state agency passwords and login information, data on FBI investigations, information on thousands of securities brokers and other information.  The state says it was unprotected for “a limited duration”.  They are investigating.  […]

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Ballistic Missiles Headed to Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio

Imagine watching TV one day and hearing an alert that says that ballistic missiles were headed from North Korea to Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio.  The alert said that people had three hours to evacuate. Ignore for the moment the fact that Russian TOPOL ballistic missiles can travel at up to 15,000 MPH, so it […]

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DHS Issues Emergency Directive 19-01 (DNS)

Homeland Security’s newly named agency – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to executive branch agencies – many of which have personnel on furlough – regarding a DNS hijacking issue. The issue is not limited to agencies and every company and private individual that owns one or more Internet domains […]

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