Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) introduced the Ransomware and Financial Stability Act (HR 5936) this week which would make it illegal for financial institutions to pay ransoms over $100,000 without first getting the government’s permission. McHenry, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, introduced the bill yesterday. He said that ransomware payments in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China’s residents are not used to online privacy – from one of the world’s most repressive and invasive regimes, but there is now an online privacy law called PIPL (Personal Information Protection Law). It went into effect on November 1 and it will change how companies do business in China – but it won’t change […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CMMC just became more complicated or more simple. The feds published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) for CMMC 2.0 and then just as quickly, unpublished it. The Federal Register, the place where official notices are published only said that they asked for it to be unpublished. So people saw the ANPR for about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Fighting a Mastodon Donald Trump’s not-yet-launched social media site, Truth, is already fighting a potential lawsuit. Although Trump has not said so, tech folks who have seen the site say that it is based on the open source social media code base called Mastodon. The license that comes with Mastodon requires that users […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to Executive Order 14028 on improving the nation’s security, NIST was required to produce a set of requirements for consumer software to obtain a security “seal of approval”. Right now the EO calls for the security standard to be voluntary. The theory is that if consumers have a choice between a product that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Smartphone Counterespionage Tips for Travellers Most people say “who would be interested in me?” but the reality is that foreign governments track Americans for a variety of reasons, both good and bad. Read this article to find some tips that could keep you below the radar and your information safer. Are Surveillance Cameras the Answer […]
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