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Security News for the Week Ending December 29, 2023

AI and the End of Privacy A couple of Stanford grad students have written an AI app that using a very small dataset (400,000 images) can detect your location. PIGEON, as the project is called, can predict the country of the image with 92 percent accuracy and provide location within 25 kilometers in 40 percent […]

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Why Does it Take a Year to Disclose a Breach?

This is one of my pet peeves. And this is not a mom & pop shop that does have the resources. Just bad management. The owner of CBS (yes, that CBS) and Paramount, National Amusements, disclosed a breach last week. Again, we are hearing about it from the Maine AG’s web site, not from them […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 22, 2023

Low Code/No Code Apps Not A Security Nirvana Just because the computer is generating much of the code does not mean the software doesn’t have bugs or is secure. In fact, since many times non-developers are using the tools, the code may be less secure. Details at The Hacker News As If Twitter Doesn’t Have […]

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Last Month it was Fidelity; Now it is First American

Two of the largest real estate title insurance companies in the United States seem to be having a problem keeping their customers’ data secure. Last month Fidelity Title took its systems offline for a week or two as they wrestled with a cyberattack that delayed real estate closings and forced lenders to resort to manual […]

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