The EU has proposed a bill that would require cloud providers to search for child sexual abuse material (AKA CSAM or Kiddie Porn) in all private communications, even end to end encrypted ones. EU lawmakers are divided on the wisdom of such a law, but the debate continues. Other critics of the plan are WhatsApp, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump Tells Crypto Execs He Won’t Regulate Crypto if Re-elected Trump raised $12 million from crypto execs after he told them that if he is re-elected he would be the crypto-president and un/not regulate crypto. Telling people what they want to hear is always easy for politicians. He said that crypto is very important and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t even know where to go with this other than to say, unfortunately, I am not surprised. Likely not patching a known bug is probably not illegal, as is not disclosing it. Roll back almost a decade, in 2016, whistleblower and security expert Andrew Harris was working for Microsoft. He was investigating a breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about Microsoft’s “Recall” feature before. I guess, in a perfect world it might be a nice feature, but we don’t live in a perfect world. For those of you who are not familiar with this new feature, Recall takes screenshots of your computer every five seconds and keeps the data for three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA’s SECURE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ATTESTATION FORM rule comes into effect next week. It requires that companies that produce software and sell it to the government adhere to key security practices. It also requires that those developers attest to their practices. In writing. Signed by an executive of the company. It applies to companies that do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unfortunately, other than the very large water and other utilities, most utilities do not have the money, manpower or desire to secure their networks. We continue to hear more stories of successful attacks. In April a Russia-linked hacking group, the Cyber Army of Russia, claimed responsibility for an attack on a water and wastewater system […]
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