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Security News for the Week Ending October 20, 2023

Regulators, Insurers and Customers All Going After Progress SW In Progress Software’s 10-Q, it reported that the SEC is going after them due to the MOVEit breach; also a slew of lawsuits in multiple countries. They are also cooperating various privacy regulators. The only winners are the lawyers. Credit: The Register Twitter Usage Still Down […]

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Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again Expecting Different Results is Called … Cryptocurrency

New York is suing cryptocurrency exchange operators Gemini Trust and Digital Currency Group for defrauding more than a quarter million investors out of more than a billion dollars. They did this, NY AG Letitia James says, by not disclosing the financial risks to investors in their crypto-lending program which went bankrupt last year. Gemini was […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 13, 2023

Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]

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AI At Its Best – Not! UK Leader Targeted With Fake Audio Posted to Twitter

No, this is not a “lets beat up Twitter” post. I assume that the person who posted the fake audio selected Twitter because it would be less likely to be taken down. This is not a smear, just the reality of where the Twitter world is today. UK opposition leader Keir Starmer was smeared by […]

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NSO’s Pegasus Spyware Has a Cousin and it has Been Around for More than a Decade

While the NSO Group went from darling to villain quickly once what they were doing became public, there are many unrelated cousins that are doing equally nasty things and are staying in the shadows. Now, one more has been exposed. The Predator Files is a collaborative investigative action by a group of journalism organizations that […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 6, 2023

After Privacy Fail, Google Tries to Secure Bard Results Google created the ability to share Bard results, but, of course, accidentally, Google is indexing those results, so if you think what you are doing is private, it might not be – but only if you intentionally create a share link. Read details here. Credit: The […]

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