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Security News for the Week Ending February 4, 2022

Who is Interested in Attacking My Little Website? I have written about this before but it is worth repeating. I have a simple firewall on my blog sites. There is nothing terribly sensitive there; it is not connected to my company’s network, but still I continue to be amazed. Yesterday there were 1175 attacks from […]

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DHS Cyber Safety Review Board Gets Its First Case – Log4j

The President’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity (EO 14928) ordered Homeland Security to create a Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB). The CSRB is supposed to be like the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) with some major differences. The CSRB will investigate major cyber isssues while the NTSB investigates transportation accidents. Unlike the NTSB which can take […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 28, 2022

Biden May Use China Rule on Russia if it Invades Ukraine This COULD be a bluff, but the administration may use the foreign direct product rule on Russia, like they did on Huawei, if Russia invades Ukraine. Depending on how it is used, it could have crushing implications on anything in Russia that uses microchips. […]

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It’s To Protect The Children

Law enforcement has been trying since at least the 1990’s when they jailed and tried to convict Phil Zimmerman for creating an open source encryption program called PGP, to put the encryption genie back in the bottle. The problem is that encryption is math and math doesn’t care about politics. If some governments were to […]

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Security News for the Week Ending January 14, 2022

Hackers Sending Malware Filled USB Sticks in the Mail Old, tried and true techniques continue to work as hackers have been sending malware-filled USB sticks in the mail and UPS to defense, transportation and insurance companies, hoping someone did not do their security awareness training and plugs the drive into their computer. It just shows […]

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