Regulators Going After Crypto Firms A number of crypto firms have felt the sting of regulators recently. The most recent one is Genesis Global Trading. New York’s DFS fined them $8 million and required them to surrender their license for failure to comply with money laundering and other laws. Of course, a key purpose for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This week it is in England, but next week it could be on this side of the pond. Facebook was flooded with fake ads featuring Rishi Sunak. The UK also has an election for the prime minister this year. Researchers found 143 DIFFERENT ads impersonating the prime minister. They think the ads may have reached […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Kemba Walden to Head new Paladin Cyber Research and Advocacy Institute After being passed over as the national cyber director, she is going to head up a new effort by cyber venture firm Paladin. Walden will serve as president of the new Paladin Global Institute, an organization Paladin said in a press release is designed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Governments around the world, at best, tolerate encryption. If they thought they could outlaw it, they would. Public pronouncements that it is “about the children” or other fairy tales not withstanding, it is about them not being able to snoop at will. That is something that they have been able to do pretty freely until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FTC announced today its first ever settlement with a data broker for selling location data. The FTC alleged that the data broker, Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, sold precise consumer location data and allowed third parties to track visits to health care providers, houses of worship and other sensitive destinations. The FTC claims […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You Haven’t Migrated to WiFi 6 Yet? It is Already Obsolete. Here is WiFi 7 WiFi 7 or, officially, IEEE 802.11be is faster and more spectrum efficient that previous WiFi versions. WiFi 7, they say, is 3 times faster than either WiFi 5 or 6, which makes it useful for things like gaming apps. Of […]
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