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Security News Bites for April 18, 2025

Work from Home Security Considerations As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. […]

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Florida Bill Would Require Encryption Backdoor

Companion bills in the Florida House and Senate would require social media companies to add backdoors to their security to allow law enforcement to eavesdrop on users’ conversations if they want to. SB 868 and HB 743 would require social media platforms to decrypt users’ data if asked to by law enforcement (it would require […]

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Is This the New Normal – EU Issues Burners to Staffers Going to the U.S.?

The EU has confirmed that it issues burner phones to top officials travelling to the United States but says it wasn’t caused by the new regime. It follows the Financial Times reporting of increased risk of surveillance when travelling to the US amid reports of US treatment of individuals transiting its borders. Customs’ opinion is that they […]

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Another False Claims Act Settlement with a Defense Contractor

For those of you not familiar with the False Claims Act or FCA, it is a Civil War Era law that the government uses to recover billions of dollars every year from contractors who lie to Uncle about something. In our case, it is going to be lying about their cybersecurity practices. In 2021 the […]

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Meta Claims Using Pirated Books to Train its LLM is “Fair Use”

In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]

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