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US and EU Agree to Yet Another Data Protection Agreement

In 1995 the US and EU started working on a cross border data transfer agreement. First came Safe Harbor (2000). In 2015 the EU Court of Justice invalidated this agreement in what is known as the Schrems I decision. In 2016, the US and EU agreed, in principle to Privacy Shield, a replacement for Safe […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 7, 2023

Twitter Limits Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day Due to – according to Twitter – an insane amount of data scraping, Twitter is limiting the number of posts an unverified (free) account can see to 1,000 per day; new unverified accounts are limited to 500 a day. Verified (paid) accounts are limited to […]

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TSA Wants to Expand Use of Facial Rec to Hundreds of Airports

The TSA is piloting the use of facial recognition to all 400+ airports they operate at within the next decade. The current pilot, at 25 airports, is supposedly voluntary, at least now, but likely people who are not familiar with the process will not think that it is voluntary. The process seems straight forward. YOU […]

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CISA has New Program to Tighten ICS Security

In an effort to fortify our critical infrastructure security, CISA has a new program to enhance cyber resilience of participating partners using CISA’s advanced threat detection and monitoring capabilities. The program is called CyberSentry and it is designed to work across industries, in real time and monitor both traditional IT networks and those control or […]

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