Senator Lummis from Wyoming plans to introduce legislation in early 2022 to attempt to rein in some of the wild west of the cryptocurrency world. Stay tuned. Rumor is that it will add investor protections, rein in stablecoins and create a self-regulatory body under the SEC and the CFTC. That might be a tall order […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Chinese drone maker DJI controls nearly 70% of the commercial drone market (Credit: Hindustan Times). DroneXL says that the control 54% of the total drone market. DoneXL says that number is down 15% from last year (which could match the 70% number) . In any case, their next nearest competitor is Autel at 7% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or at least standardized policy language on the subject. Cyber insurance policies have always had language excluding “hostile and warlike actions”, whatever the hell that means. What it means is full employment for lawyers. And a long time before you get paid. The Lloyd’s Market Association, the syndicate that drives Lloyd’s backed policies, has created […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is probably not news if you were affected, earlier today Amazon had a bit of a problem. Just in time for the Christmas rush, Amazon warehouse workers had a bit of a holiday. Workers reported in social media that warehouses are at a standstill, leaving workers without much to do besides singing karaoke. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week we got a call from one of our customers, a bit frantic (I am not going to say anything about who they are), asking for an assessment about whether they had been hacked. After a little investigating, we decided that the answer was no, but so began a story that lasted for four […]
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