The U.S. government released its widely anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy on Tuesday, pushing mandatory regulation on critical infrastructure vendors and green-lighting a more aggressive ‘hack-back’ approach to dealing with foreign adversaries and ransomware actors. The strategy is just that, a roadmap. While parts of it can be done without Congress’ approval, lots of it require additional authority. […]
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Mergers and acquisitions are a time to tread carefully. While all M&A teams review financials, sales projections, key personnel, etc., it is much less likely that the review includes examining the code base being acquired for vulnerabilities. That is probably not a good decision. Synopsys sells a service to review software during mergers and acquisitions […]
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European Governments Want to be Able to Snoop on ALL of Our Communications As is usually the case, their excuse it that “it is to protect the children”. They want to break encryption while sprinkling magic fairy dust to not break encryption (an impossibility) in an effort to force kiddie porn traders (now called child […]
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BlackCat Leaks Irish University’s Hacked Data I reported last week that Munster Technological University closed several of its campuses after a ransomware attack, which the university, apparently did not pay. The Irish High Court issued an injunction prohibiting the hackers from leaking the data and return any data that they had. They did “return” it […]
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The “Chocolate Factory”, as Google is sometimes called, is facing an existential threat. Between new privacy laws in the U.S. and other countries and the restrictions on cookies, especially third party cookies, the main mechanisms that Google uses to target ads to you and me, Google’s revenue, 90 percent of which comes from ads, is […]
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If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
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