In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While many executive orders are a waste of good space in the Federal Register, so far executive branch agencies seem to be taking the Executive Order on Improving Cybersecurity seriously. The most recent result is that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered federal agencies to start documenting software that is identified as critical. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Answer: More and more of the time! If you have to comply with one of the growing number of state and country privacy laws, then a deletion request is much more than a request or hitting the delete key. While some of the details of each state’s law is different, the basics are the same. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cyber Insurance Company Coalition Says Claims Payment Down From Last Year Cyber insurer Coalition says that it’s clients’ average claims for losses for ransomware attacks was $184,000 for the first half of this year, down 45% from the second half of last year. This, they say, is because they are doing better at negotiating ransoms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is about to announce a new feature. They are going to start scanning everyone’s iPhone for banned content. Seriously. It uses neural networks and machine learning, so I am sure it will be cool. According to respected cryptography professor Matthew Green, it is going to scan everyone’s devices for child porn (now referred to […]
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