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Security News Update for September 30, 2022

Why You Should Wear Contacts While on Video Conferences Researchers in Michigan and China have demonstrated their ability to read what is on your screen while you are on a video conference with 75% accuracy with text as small as 10 mm and a relatively low resolution 720 p camera. Credit: The Register Crooks are […]

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Fired IT Admin Cripples Former Employer’s Network

This is actually not a unique story; it happens from time to time. Luckily, it doesn’t happen that often, but when it does, OH BOY! Casey Umetso, age 40, was a network administrator for a “prominent Hawaii-based financial services company”, the name of which, for some reason, the DoJ is trying to shield. After being […]

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Is Your IT Provider a Security Dumpster Fire

Many small businesses and a lot of large ones use third party IT service providers called MSPs or Managed Service Providers. In almost all cases, these MSPs have the keys to your IT universe. They have access to your data. They also have access to all of your access rules. If they also help you […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending September 23, 2022

Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at Twitter Mudge says that there were spies working for China and India working at the company. Twitter says of course. Probably because that was part of a deal-with-the-devil that Twitter made to be able to stay in the country. What Mudge says was […]

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California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act is Law

We anticipated this was coming, so not really a surprise, but it is now law. Governor Newsom signed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act into law. The law regulates business that provide an online service likely to be accessed by children. One option, of course, is to ban kids from using a company’s web site. […]

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Third Party Risk May Be Your Biggest Risk

Organizations manage risk. Risk has a lot of dimensions. Everything from not being able to get raw materials to hurricanes. Possibly your biggest risk is your third party relationships. As companies continue to outsource parts of their supply chain to other companies, those companies have your data. And if those companies get breached, you get […]

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