Fintech is a term, that refers, loosely, to all of those companies that want to “help” you manage your financial data in the cloud and are not banks. Examples are Mint, Chime, Credit Karma, Coinbase, Kabbage and hundreds of others. Fintech can also include service providers to banks. Here is the problem. Fintechs are not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend. But Congress being Congress, they didn’t. On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the road for 77 days. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. Federal Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued its long awaited report last week and warned of a “catastrophic attack that leaves the nation in tatters”. While right now everyone is worried about Covid-19, this represents a longer term problem that won’t be fixed in a few months. The report creates a vivid hypothetical attack and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Corona Virus Covid-19 continues to do it’s thing, it has already revealed a lot of uncomfortable truths – no doubt part of the reason the market has reacted the way it has. So what are some of the things are we are seeing: Large entertainment events such as SXSW and Cochella are being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Attorney General Barr and FBI Director Wray have been lobbying strongly for companies such as Facebook and Google to add backdoors to their cryptography so that they can eavesdrop on conversations when they need to. But there are problems with backdoors to encryption. Mostly, you cannot control who uses them. Case in point Huawei. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s Encrypt Became Let’s Revoke and Then Let’s Confuse Let’s encrypt sent out an alert early this week that they were going to revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on March 4th. That was going to happen because of a software bug on their part which meant that they possibly issued certificates when they should not […]
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