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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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Security News for the Week Ending December 22, 2023

Low Code/No Code Apps Not A Security Nirvana Just because the computer is generating much of the code does not mean the software doesn’t have bugs or is secure. In fact, since many times non-developers are using the tools, the code may be less secure. Details at The Hacker News As If Twitter Doesn’t Have […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 15, 2023

Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]

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The New SEC Cyber Rules

Come tomorrow and Monday, there are changes in store for publicly traded companies when it comes to cybersecurity. This will help everyone else since virtually all companies have publicly traded companies who are vendors or business partners and this extra information will help you understand your partners’ cybersecurity efforts. Industry groups and Republicans aren’t excited […]

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Amazon Spends $1.2 Bil a Year to Investigate Fraud

Apparently folks think Amazon is their personal piggy bank. Amazon said that last year alone they spent at least $1.2 billion employing investigators to manually detect fraud (this is in addition to their automated fraud detection) and have 15,000 people working to combat fraud, theft and abuse. This translates to higher prices for you. One […]

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