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California’s New Do Not Email Law – Fines Are Company Ending

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) is responsible for implementing the new law. It is the fallout from the data broker registration law. DROP or Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform is taking the fines to a whole new level. I watched a webinar on this today and the process is complex. If you are doing […]

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If Firewall Companies Can’t Secure Themselves ….. What Do We Do?

This is a tale of three firewall vendors: Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet and their security challenges. First, even though we likely think of a firewall as a piece of hardware, in reality, it is just a specialized computer – think of it as the original Internet of Things device – that runs a lot of […]

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US Declines to Sign UN Cybercrime Treaty

This is not over until it is over. The cybercrime treaty forces signers to potentially break their own laws and criminalize actions that are legal in their own country if a foreign government asks them to. It requires governments to hand over data about their citizens such as, and certainly not limited to, a citizen’s […]

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Texas Stands Up Cyber Command

Lets face it; Texas public sector entities don’t have a good cybersecurity track record. And that is only a small part of the list. So the Texas legislature passed HB 150 to stand up the Texas Cyber Command over the next few years. It is going to do a couple of things. Sort of weirdly, […]

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09.11.25 Security News Bites

09.11.25 Security News Bites 45 New Domains Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Salt Typhoon is the group that hacked all the big telephone companies including the FBI’s wiretap portal. Recently the FBI says that the group hacked over 200 US companies. Now researchers have identified more domains being used by Salt Typhoon and another Chinese […]

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Innocent websites and pages being disappeared from Google

This is a battle that has been going on for decades. But now AI is ramping up the battle with velocity. Piracy of content on the Internet is a big problem, especially for people who make a living from posting content on the Internet. An example of this is adult content, but that is certainly […]

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