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Security News for the Week Ending April 28, 2023

A Couple of Annoyed Redditors Launched Website to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? While I understand why some folks might be annoyed at their landlord, how do you verify anything that is on the site? Until now there really hasn’t been a way to figure out whether a landlord treats […]

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The EU is Enforcing the Digital Services Act and it Might Help You

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, The DSA overhauls the EU’s core platform regulation, the e-Commerce Directive, and is intended to be an important tool in making the internet a fairer place by setting out new legal responsibilities for online platforms and educating users on why content is removed and what they can do about it. […]

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Data Retention, Minimization and the Elephant in the Room

As U.S. states implement new second-generation privacy laws (there are currently 8 states – can you name all of them?), the rules regarding data retention are changing and you might want to be prepared – unless, of course, you enjoy spending tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers to defend yourself, hours being deposed and […]

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AI: Productivity Gains vs. Security Risks

No sane person can deny the allure of Generative Pre-trained Transformer AIs. Smart people are also concerned about the security risks they create. For example, if you use an AI to write code, could the AI include a back door? Or malware? How do you know without reviewing every line of code in detail? In […]

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Security News for the Week Ending April 21, 2023

Arkansas Becomes First State to Ban Minors from Social Media Without Parental Permission It is now illegal for anyone in Arkansas to be on social media without parental permission if they are under 18. Do you think this will actually stop anyone? If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale. […]

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Advanced Industrial Malware Could be Inside Our Critical Infrastructure

The world’s most advance industrial malware – malware that is designed to go after industrial control systems in places like power plants – called PIPEDREAM, may already have infiltrated some critical infrastructure control systems, waiting to unleash who knows what. Global business advisory firm Ankura said that they are concerned that PIPEDREAM cannot be stopped […]

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