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Security News for the Week Ending December 15, 2023

Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]

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The New SEC Cyber Rules

Come tomorrow and Monday, there are changes in store for publicly traded companies when it comes to cybersecurity. This will help everyone else since virtually all companies have publicly traded companies who are vendors or business partners and this extra information will help you understand your partners’ cybersecurity efforts. Industry groups and Republicans aren’t excited […]

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Check Fraud on Pace for Record Year – Consider Electronic Payments

Thru October, depository institutions (mainly banks) filed 440,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to check fraud according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FINCEN. Last year, for the same period, that number was 420,000. This puts us on track for 500,000 reports for the year, which is double the number from 2021. To help […]

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Amazon Spends $1.2 Bil a Year to Investigate Fraud

Apparently folks think Amazon is their personal piggy bank. Amazon said that last year alone they spent at least $1.2 billion employing investigators to manually detect fraud (this is in addition to their automated fraud detection) and have 15,000 people working to combat fraud, theft and abuse. This translates to higher prices for you. One […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 8, 2023

US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]

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May 7th, 2025 – Let the Chaos Begin

Real ID, a misguided effort by the feds to make everyone have a less easily fakeable driver’s license (notice I did not say a secure driver’s license) came out of the 9-11 attacks. For the last 20 years the feds have been trying to get the states to implement the law, with many states resisting […]

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