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Facebook Users Fighting ‘Consent or Pay’ Model

First of all, this is not happening in the U.S. because the U.S. does not have a national general privacy law. For all of its flaws, Europe’s GDPR at least has possibility of reigning in big tech a little bit. In most parts of the world, Meta users (Facebook and Instagram) have two choices – […]

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The Business Side of China’s Hacking Industry

A large and revealing leak from China was released earlier this month. It shows how much the hacking world in China has turned into a business. The company, i-SOON, was the victim of a leak. So sad! Not! The hacker posted a collection of 500 internal documents to GitHub. The documents reveal details of China’s […]

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They’re Baaaack! LockBit, That Is. And they are Ticked Off

The FBI touted just last week that they had taken down LockBit and replaced the servers with ones that offered free decryption keys and sunshine for all. It didn’t last long. The Russia-based hackers have reconstituted themselves and have new servers. It is true that the FBI and Europol and others did take down their […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 23, 2024

NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce to Retire After 34 Years Now that is a career in public service. Joyce was the Cyber Director at NSA since 2021 and was at the NSA during the days that it was affectionately called “No Such Agency” for its secretiveness. It comes at a time when cyber threats are […]

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AI, Quantum Computing and Crypto – Not a Good Mix

Sorry, this is going to be a bit convoluted, so try to stay with me. First we had encryption. Things were good. Encryption was based on mathematically hard problems and computers could not do the math, even in, potentially, a hundred thousand years. Then came Quantum computing. Or at least it is coming. Or maybe […]

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Do You Have Software Security (Technical) Debt Piling Up?

Veracode makes software that tests your software for vulnerabilities. Software developers use Veracode’s product to see if their software is vulnerable. Here is some information based on scanning over one million applications: Veracode says that AI-Generated code brings security bugs at scale and will likely add to security or technical debt. AI tools might also […]

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