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Security News for the Week Ending March 29, 2024

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks Either Mozilla didn’t run much of a background check or Onerep’s CEO is great at hiding his other businesses. Mozilla hired him to provide identity protection services, but it turns out that he runs dozens of sites that provide dirt on people. Not exactly compatible […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 22, 2024

Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]

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DoD Contractors: Will You Have to Replace Your MSP?

If you are a defense contractor, then over the next few years you will likely have to be compliant and maybe certified for CMMC, either at level one or level two. Level one has about 17 controls and 59 assessment objectives; level two has 110 controls and about 315 assessment objectives. Assessment objectives are the […]

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Feds Say CISA Not Prepared to Defend OT

If that headline doesn’t keep you up at night, I don’t know what will. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says they have have found inefficiencies in CISA’s information sharing practices, in particular with critical infrastructure stakeholders. They also say that CISA is understaffed for handling OT incidents. Just to make sure everyone is on the […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 15, 2024

No Honor Among Crooks – Darknet Site Extorts Vendors, Buyers I guess we should not be surprised, but darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has posted a threat on its homepage that if its vendors and buyers don’t pay an extortion of between $100 and $20,000, they will publish all of their transaction and chat records. […]

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Your Carmaker May Be Selling Your Driving Data to Your Insurance Company

One thing about a country that has no federal privacy law – There are very few limits on what someone can do with data that they have legally collected. The legal part is that you agreed to allowi your “smart car” to collect your driving data. That data may include things like your speed and […]

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