Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like other countries, UK politicians are wrestling with how to deal with encryption. After all, the U.S. has been dealing with it since they arrested Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP encryption and they haven’t resolved the issue either. The UK wants to, basically, ban end to end encryption in the name of “protecting the children”. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about how long it takes hackers to find “secrets” that are left accidentally (hopefully) exposed in the cloud. The answer was scarily short – as little as two minutes. This prompted one reader to ask “well how should I harden my cloud server”. Here are some tips. Most of the time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Securities and Exchange Commission is not happy with JP Morgan for accidentally deleting millions of emails related to it’s Chase Bank subsidiary. The company deleted something on the order of 47 million electronic communications records from almost 9,000 mailboxes covering the period January 1 to April 23, 2018. Many of these records were required […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In February, Supreme Court Justice Kagan stated the obvious – that the justices are not the nine greatest experts on the Internet. But, this term, they are going to make rulings that will have, potentially, a very significant impact on the Internet. The Court agreed to review a dispute between the 6th and 9th circuits, […]
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