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Security News Update for November 1, 2024

Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]

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After China Hacks US Telecoms, it Complains About “Seabed Sentinels”

Right after it was disclosed that China hacked into the major telecom providers in the U.S. and eavesdropped on calls and texts for major national politicians like (but not limited to) Trump and Harris, China is claiming that unnamed western countries are spying on them. Can you imagine that? Countries spying on each other. The […]

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Election Security Challenges Escalate

Foreign influence campaigns are intensifying as we get closer to election day. Even though the US is far better prepared than in previous elections, that is not stopping the Russians, Chinese and Iranians, among others. One thing that is happening in this election that did not happen in the past is real time response to […]

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Security News Update for October 25, 2024

Global Police Crackdown Arrests 5,000, Shuts Down Sites A global police crackdown in June and July against illegal sports gambling led to thousands of arrests and website shutdowns while also disrupting scam centers and their related human trafficking and money laundering operations, Interpol reported Thursday. They arrested 5,100 people, recovered $59 million in proceeds and […]

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Your Digital Exhaust **IS** Being Hoovered Up

What is your digital exhaust? It is all the clues you leave behind as you navigate your digital journey. Whether it is location data that you give to a game or a cell phone tower that you ping off of. Or that box you checked without reading when you installed that app. They all are […]

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