The EU has confirmed that it issues burner phones to top officials travelling to the United States but says it wasn’t caused by the new regime. It follows the Financial Times reporting of increased risk of surveillance when travelling to the US amid reports of US treatment of individuals transiting its borders. Customs’ opinion is that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you not familiar with the False Claims Act or FCA, it is a Civil War Era law that the government uses to recover billions of dollars every year from contractors who lie to Uncle about something. In our case, it is going to be lying about their cybersecurity practices. In 2021 the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Information security experts say that China could retaliate against US tariff in a different way. What if President Xi calls in his army of hackers, rumored to be in the neighborhood of 300,000 to go after the United States? He could do this in one of two ways. The first way is to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Settlement Checks Coming for 2021 T-Mobile Breach In 2021 a T-Mobile breach exposed data on 76 million customers. This is separate from the 2023 breach that impacted 37 million customers. If you are one of them, you may be eligible for some money. But don’t celebrate yet. The settlement is for $350 million. If all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The UK is bracing for a fight with the White House over so-called free speech. Trying to do it quietly, hopefully. The British regulator Ofcom sent warning letters to several US technology companies telling them that Ofcom was about to enforce the UK’s Online Safety Act. Note that every country thinks that their free speech […]
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