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Security News for the Week Ending January 5, 2024

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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AI Needs Your Data and It Needs it Badly

Item 1 – Apple is reported to be in negotiations with news companies and other publishers (like NBC and Conde Nast) to “license” their back catalog of content for their AI projects. Apple is offering, supposedly, up to $50 million to license their content, but, at least for now, the content creators were not fans […]

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Operation HAECHI IV – Worth Talking About

I don’t usually blog about an individual hacker takedown but this one – it is worth talking about. Certainly not the end of hacking but a significant win for the federales. Last month Interpol talked about Operation HAECHI IV. It was a six month takedown effort that involved 34 countries and funding from South Korea. […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 29, 2023

AI and the End of Privacy A couple of Stanford grad students have written an AI app that using a very small dataset (400,000 images) can detect your location. PIGEON, as the project is called, can predict the country of the image with 92 percent accuracy and provide location within 25 kilometers in 40 percent […]

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Why Does it Take a Year to Disclose a Breach?

This is one of my pet peeves. And this is not a mom & pop shop that does have the resources. Just bad management. The owner of CBS (yes, that CBS) and Paramount, National Amusements, disclosed a breach last week. Again, we are hearing about it from the Maine AG’s web site, not from them […]

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