NSA Cyber Director Rob Joyce to Retire After 34 Years Now that is a career in public service. Joyce was the Cyber Director at NSA since 2021 and was at the NSA during the days that it was affectionately called “No Such Agency” for its secretiveness. It comes at a time when cyber threats are […]
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AI. I hear that it is a thing these days. In order for that to work, companies need to have data to train their software on. Continuously new data. What better way to do that than to use the data that you already have collected from your customers. Some companies are quietly changing their privacy […]
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FCC Bans Robocalls Using AI-Generated Voices This comes after someone generated thousands of robocalls pretending to be Joe Biden telling people not to vote. Unless they get express permission from the recipient of the call, which would, of course, defeat the purpose of the call. The FCC wrote the rule in a way that allows […]
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Security or convenience, pick one. Background: there is a difference between IDENTIFICATION and AUTHENTICATION. Identification is the equivalent of a userid. Userids are not secret. Authentication is the equivalent of a password. Passwords are secret. Many systems use biometrics like a face scan to BOTH identify a user and authenticate that it is really that […]
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U.S. Intelligence agencies say that China is shifting tactics. Or, maybe just adding new ones. The NSA, CISA and FBI said, in a joint advisory, that China-backed hackers have maintained access inside U.S. critical infrastructure such as aviation, rail, mass transit, highway, maritime, pipeline, water and sewage to prepare to launch a catastrophic attack at […]
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Assuming you are like every other company, you communicate with people. People like employees, customers, suppliers and the media. Given what we are seeing, already, with deepfakes and the the fact that this is only just starting, what is your plan to protect your reputation? Would a competitor or someone else publish a photo, video, […]
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