Like other countries, UK politicians are wrestling with how to deal with encryption. After all, the U.S. has been dealing with it since they arrested Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP encryption and they haven’t resolved the issue either. The UK wants to, basically, ban end to end encryption in the name of “protecting the children”. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Securities and Exchange Commission is not happy with JP Morgan for accidentally deleting millions of emails related to it’s Chase Bank subsidiary. The company deleted something on the order of 47 million electronic communications records from almost 9,000 mailboxes covering the period January 1 to April 23, 2018. Many of these records were required […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In February, Supreme Court Justice Kagan stated the obvious – that the justices are not the nine greatest experts on the Internet. But, this term, they are going to make rulings that will have, potentially, a very significant impact on the Internet. The Court agreed to review a dispute between the 6th and 9th circuits, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]White House Cyber Official to Depart Rob Knake, who served as deputy national cyber director for budget and policy and a key drafter of the National cyber strategy is leaving this week. Following Chris Inglis resignation a few months ago, this represents a problem in pushing the administration’s cyber strategy. Some lawmakers are supporting nominating […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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