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A Warning for Founders About Open Source Software and Lean Teams

Founders of startups are mostly interested in getting a minimal viable product (MVP) out the door as quickly as possible. This is quite reasonable and what the investors likely want. After all, if there is no product, there is no revenue. The solution to this is, among other things, to reduce cost by relying on […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 13, 2023

Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]

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AI At Its Best – Not! UK Leader Targeted With Fake Audio Posted to Twitter

No, this is not a “lets beat up Twitter” post. I assume that the person who posted the fake audio selected Twitter because it would be less likely to be taken down. This is not a smear, just the reality of where the Twitter world is today. UK opposition leader Keir Starmer was smeared by […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 22, 2023

Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]

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Cyber Insurance Claims Increase in Severity and Frequency

Coalition Insurance, which is pretty aggressive in refusing to insure customers unless they have better than average security practices released their mid-year update on claims. Here is the summary: Overall claims frequency increased by 12% in the first half of 2023, however, Coalition customers experienced 64% fewer claims compared to the broader market, with 52% […]

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MGM Hackers Conned Their Help Desk – Are You Prepared?

The help desk was operated by a third party. The hackers conned the help desk, it is reported, to reset all of the two factor methods that were set up to protect a super-admin account. They likely did this after they phished an employee for his/her userid and password. They used deceptive phone calls to […]

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