Regulators Going After Crypto Firms A number of crypto firms have felt the sting of regulators recently. The most recent one is Genesis Global Trading. New York’s DFS fined them $8 million and required them to surrender their license for failure to comply with money laundering and other laws. Of course, a key purpose for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Come tomorrow and Monday, there are changes in store for publicly traded companies when it comes to cybersecurity. This will help everyone else since virtually all companies have publicly traded companies who are vendors or business partners and this extra information will help you understand your partners’ cybersecurity efforts. Industry groups and Republicans aren’t excited […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is no big surprise that disinformation and misinformation is running rampant on all social media in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas. What is different this time is that, at least for large social media platforms like Meta and Twitter, is that they have two choices – Block all traffic from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Norway fined Meta for its targeted advertising practices and issued a temporary ban several months ago. Now Norway has gone to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and asked for the ban to be made permanent and EU/EEA wide. Since Facebook makes most of its money from targeted ads and untargeted ads fetch a dramatically […]
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