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Security News for the Week Ending February 9, 2024

DEF CON is Canceled, No Really It is a meme. Every year there are announcements that DEF CON is canceled, but this year it is real. Sort of. DEF CON is the world’s largest hacking convention and has, for years, been held at Caesars in Las Vegas. You may remember that Caesars had an unfortunate […]

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Third Party, Fourth Party and More – Breaches

As companies continue to expand their use of third party providers, the issue of security also expands. A cloud database belonging to CU Solutions Group, a service provider to credit unions, was left unsecured. More on that in a minute. That would make them a third party service provider to credit unions. Except …….. When […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 5, 2024

You Haven’t Migrated to WiFi 6 Yet? It is Already Obsolete. Here is WiFi 7 WiFi 7 or, officially, IEEE 802.11be is faster and more spectrum efficient that previous WiFi versions. WiFi 7, they say, is 3 times faster than either WiFi 5 or 6, which makes it useful for things like gaming apps. Of […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 29, 2023

AI and the End of Privacy A couple of Stanford grad students have written an AI app that using a very small dataset (400,000 images) can detect your location. PIGEON, as the project is called, can predict the country of the image with 92 percent accuracy and provide location within 25 kilometers in 40 percent […]

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Why Does it Take a Year to Disclose a Breach?

This is one of my pet peeves. And this is not a mom & pop shop that does have the resources. Just bad management. The owner of CBS (yes, that CBS) and Paramount, National Amusements, disclosed a breach last week. Again, we are hearing about it from the Maine AG’s web site, not from them […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 22, 2023

Low Code/No Code Apps Not A Security Nirvana Just because the computer is generating much of the code does not mean the software doesn’t have bugs or is secure. In fact, since many times non-developers are using the tools, the code may be less secure. Details at The Hacker News As If Twitter Doesn’t Have […]

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