Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the feds to spy on Americans – more on that in a later post – but there are rules regarding the spying on Americans. Most of the time the FBI and others follow these rules, but not always. The Act was passed after 9/11 but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Remind Folks that Money Stored in Fintech Platforms Like eBay are at Risk US consumers have billions of dollars stored on platforms like eBay, Venmo and a number of others. The feds want to remind you that if you do that, you are “self insuring”, meaning that maybe the platform will return your money […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just a few years ago all we worried about was hackers breaking into our servers in the computer room in the office. We expanded that footprint to include servers located in a data center space that we rented (also called a colo). Those were still servers that we owned. And patched – hopefully. Then we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI, especially generative AI from Large Language Models is THE hot item right now, but other forms of AI are also gaining rapid popularity and specifically that is AI deep fakes of images and videos. One concern that is on the mind of most politicians as we move into the 2024 election cycle is deep […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sam Bankman-Fried demonstrated what happens when you combine unfathomable amounts of money and no regulation. It isn’t pretty. Binance moves $12 billion a day and has no physical office. What could possibly go wrong? Since the SEC was asleep at the wheel when FTX collapsed, leaving a lot of customers high and dry – since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dutch Data Protection Authorities Looking Into Alleged Tesla Data Breach Germany’s Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that Tesla (TSLA.O) had allegedly failed to adequately protect data belonging to customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. The Dutch DPA is looking into the situation. Among the data is Elon’s Social plus […]
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