Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The feds say that Epic Games, maker of the super popular game, Fortnite, has agreed to pay a fine of more than a half billion dollars to settle the charges. While Fortnite is free, players can buy in-game items like dance moves and costumes. There are more than 400 million users worldwide. The fine breaks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For the last several years the National Defense Authorization Act has contained a number of cybersecurity features, including some recommendations from the cyberspace solarium commission. This year’s bill includes: Since the NDAA is a must pass bill every year, there is a lot of stuff that gets put into it and cybersecurity gets some of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Two women are suing Apple over claims that its AirTags are a stalker’s delight. For only $29, you can stalk anyone you want. One woman says that the stalker put the AirTag in the wheel well of her car. The lawsuit says that she received little help from the cops or from Apple. She says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was probably only a matter of time, but former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and former billionaire (now hundred-aire) Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government. For those of you not watching this dumpster fire, crypto exchange FTX and its related companies leveraged the hell out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]
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