Remember that Real-ID Deadline we Were Worried About Since planes seem to be flying with less passengers than flight crew members these days – if they fly at all – the gov has decided to make some security changes. In addition to the fact that they are allowing you to bring a 12 ounce bottle […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Concerned Covid Will Cause US IP Loss In an interesting analysis, Ellen Lord, DoD’s top acquisition official, is concerned that foreign interests (including unfriendly foreign interests) will buy or invest in small U.S. defense subs and steal our tech. In theory CFIUS and FRRMA should make that harder as the government has the right […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For years U.S. telephone carriers have said that they can’t stop spam callers. Truth is that they make a lot of money from either sending or receiving these calls, so they had zero incentive to figure out a way to stop it. The problem would decrease a lot if you could believe the information that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Very few of my readers run electric utilities – those are the ones that these regulations apply to directly. Then there are folks who are suppliers to utilities. And suppliers to those suppliers. The new regs require that utilities have a decent vendor cyber risk management program. That increases the pool of interested parties a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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. […]
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