In light of the most recent Chinese attack on Azure, several people are speaking out. Amit Yoran, chairman of security firm Tenable, former president of RSA and former Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division director, says this in a LinkedIn post: Cloud providers have long espoused the shared responsibility model. That model is irretrievably broken […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since it seems that fully remote work and hybrid work are not going away anytime soon, we need to make sure that remote workers are secure. It is not going away because the best employees will find another job rather than be forced to come into the office. Forester Research says 68% of remote workers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zero Trust is a buzzword these days. People say that it is a key tool in the security practitioner’s arsenal, but what is it anyway. Here is what the core elements are, according to NIST’s zero trust framework. That means those “software functions” in the cloud. Each of them. Each of them is a resource. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While legislators in a variety of countries are trying very hard to ban encryption, vulnerabilities in existing encryption implementations are surfacing. While none of the proposed encryption bans are laws yet in the U.S., it doesn’t mean that people aren’t trying. More importantly, companies have for years thought that security by obscurity is a good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will be fined $100,000 a day over privacy breaches unless it fixes the issue, says Norway’s data protection board. Norway says that Meta can’t harvest physical location data to target ads. Big tech loves doing this, so while Meta is in the cross hairs today, if this sticks, others will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember when we used to say seeing is believing. Or hearing. Well not any more. Want to hear Johnny Cash sing Barbie Girl? With amazing fidelity? It is available on YouTube. Only problem is that the Barbie song came out after Cash was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and had stopped performing. Also, this recording […]
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