DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]
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After Privacy Fail, Google Tries to Secure Bard Results Google created the ability to share Bard results, but, of course, accidentally, Google is indexing those results, so if you think what you are doing is private, it might not be – but only if you intentionally create a share link. Read details here. Credit: The […]
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Ex-NSA Director General Alexander’s Security Company (IronNet) Near Bankruptcy It just goes to show that just because you are famous and people invest $78 million in you, doesn’t mean you know how to run a business. How, exactly, do you blow almost $80 million and realize you are over the edge of the cliff before […]
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Alerts, Apple, Best Practices, Google, Hacks, iOS, Legal, News Bites, Privacy, Safety, Security Practices
Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
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Ukraine Starts Using Clearview Facial Rec to Detect Ruskies Ukraine is using Clearview’s facial recognition tech to identify Russian operatives trying to infiltrate the Ministry of Defense. Clearview has over 2 billion photos scraped from Russia’s social media service VKontakte. They are not sharing with Russia. That likely makes Clearview a high priority hacking target […]
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Trump is Not Happy About Launch of Twitter-Like Truth Social Apparently not happy is a bit of an understatement. He has a lot to lose if this is not successful. As part of the SPAC deal with Digital World, he has a lot of shares. If the stock, which is still going up slowly, tanks, […]
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