China’s residents are not used to online privacy – from one of the world’s most repressive and invasive regimes, but there is now an online privacy law called PIPL (Personal Information Protection Law). It went into effect on November 1 and it will change how companies do business in China – but it won’t change […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CMMC just became more complicated or more simple. The feds published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) for CMMC 2.0 and then just as quickly, unpublished it. The Federal Register, the place where official notices are published only said that they asked for it to be unpublished. So people saw the ANPR for about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Fighting a Mastodon Donald Trump’s not-yet-launched social media site, Truth, is already fighting a potential lawsuit. Although Trump has not said so, tech folks who have seen the site say that it is based on the open source social media code base called Mastodon. The license that comes with Mastodon requires that users […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are targeting the cloud. Why? To paraphrase Willie Sutton, because that is where the data is. Historically, penetration testers gain access to network devices through the “perimeter defense” and then they move around (the so-called east-west movement) trying to get access to data, wherever it lives inside the network perimeter. But in the cloud, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to Executive Order 14028 on improving the nation’s security, NIST was required to produce a set of requirements for consumer software to obtain a security “seal of approval”. Right now the EO calls for the security standard to be voluntary. The theory is that if consumers have a choice between a product that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over a year ago Apple announced that they were going to make a major change in how Apple (Mac and iPhone) users interact with ads NOT served up by Apple. Web sites and apps were going to have to ASK a user’s permission to track data across web sites or for sharing with data brokers. […]
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