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Security News Update for the Week Ending August 26, 2022

Mozilla Says 18 of 25 Pregnancy Apps: Privacy Not Included Out of the 25 “reproductive health” apps and wearable devices, 18 received a “privacy not included” rating. That means that they have a problem protecting their user’s privacy. In today’s world that data could be used by private bounty hunters in states that offer that […]

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Lloyd’s of London to Exclude State-Sponsored Attacks from Cyber Insurance Policies

Starting in March 2023, Lloyd’s will REQUIRE all its agents to exclude liability for losses from state sponsored cyberattacks. The problem is defining what is a state sponsored attack. In a bulletin to its producers last week, Lloyd’s says that it remains strongly supportive of its agents writing cyber policies, it is concerned that the […]

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Security News For The Week Ending August 19, 2022

Defcon Hacker Hacks Deere Tractor to Play Doom The right to repair folks and some manufacturers have been at odds for years regarding right to repair. John Deere has really be anti-right. This year a researcher demoed hacking a tractor and getting it to play Doom on the main display. Credit: Hackread Monero Developers “Fork” […]

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Security News For The Week Ending August 12, 2022

Windows 11 May Damage Data on Some CPUs Microsoft issued a warning that computers that use the Vector AES instruction set might damage data , but they don’t say how or why. Microsoft says fixes in June and May prevent further damage but the result is that encryption is much slower after the patch. They […]

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Denver Area Colleges Closed due to Doxing

Doxing is defined as the publishing of identifying information with malicious intent. Last week “threats” were made against 5 Denver area colleges. The colleges (Arapahoe Community, Community of Aurora and Denver, Front Range Community and Red Rocks Community) either closed their campuses and forced people to leave the campus or went into lockdown. Even though […]

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